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Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin gēns, gentem. Compare Catalan gent and Occitan gent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen/
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: chent
Noun
chent f
- people
Norman
Etymology
From Old Northern French chent (Old French cent), from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Numeral
chent
- (Jersey, France) one hundred
1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 512:L'amour hâle pûs que chent bœufs.- Love draws more than a hundred oxen.
Derived terms
Noun
chent m (plural chents)
- (Jersey) hundredweight
Old French
Noun
chent oblique singular, m (oblique plural chenz or chentz, nominative singular chenz or chentz, nominative plural chent)
- Alternative form of cent