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English
Noun
centenar (plural centenars)
- (historical, military) During the Hundred Years' War, a commander of one hundred infantry.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From centè + -ar.
Pronunciation
Noun
centenar m (plural centenars)
- a set of one hundred like objects
Prop d'un centenar de persones es van congregar ahir a la plaça Sant Jaume.- Nearly a hundred people came together yesterday at the Plaça Sant Jaume.
- a quantity of approximately one hundred
- (historical, military) in the armies of Catalonia before the Nueva Planta decrees, a company of one hundred men
Usage notes
- Centenar is used to express quantities expressed to a precision of the nearest hundred, or a set of one hundred. For the number one hundred exactly, cent is used.
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centenarius.
Noun
centenar n (plural centenare)
- centenary
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From centena + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenteˈnaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senteˈnaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cen‧te‧nar
Noun
centenar m (plural centenares)
- a unit of one hundred objects
- Synonym: centena
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