centiens Latin · revision 33179

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dḱmtom}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''centiēns''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''centiēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|centum|-iēns|t1=hundred]], a numeral adverb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|centum]] to [[itc-pro|*kntom]] and [[ine-pro|*dḱmtom|t=hundred]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Asinaria'', of giving the same orders a hundred times;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Terence has something said a hundred times.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is often an exaggeration, “a hundred times”.^(OLD 2012) With ''sēstertium'' it stands for a hundred times a hundred thousand sesterces, ten million: Cicero has nearly twelve million paid out over three years, and eighteen million in the ''In Pisonem'', and Nepos about ten million.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The grammarian Marius Victorinus requires the spelling ''centiēns'', while Caper and Priscian have ''centiēs''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of orders given a hundred times.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of something said a hundred times.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of sums of millions of sesterces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # A [[m|en|hundred]] times, often as an exaggeration.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With ''sēstertium'' understood or expressed, ten million [[m|en|sesterce|alt=sesterces]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[centum]]

+ * [[deciēns]]

+ * [[mīliēns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}