centum 1
/sen"teuhm/ , n.
one hundred.
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centum 2
/ken"teuhm, -toom/ , adj.
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds /k/ or /kh/ , from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian. Cf. satem .
[ 1900-05; c- the outcome of IE palato-velar stops characteristic of the group ]