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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
From Spanish ciento.
Numeral
ciento
- hundred.
Latin
Verb
cientō
- third-person plural future active imperative of cieō
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
Number
ciento
- one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
Ciento dos personas vinieron.- One hundred and two people came.
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Noun
ciento m (plural cientos)
- hundred (100 units of something)
Compré dos cientos de manzanas.- I bought two hundred apples.
- (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)
- (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)
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