hundred

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Translingual

Hundred is used only for a final double zero

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English hundred.

Pronunciation

Noun

hundred

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for 00.

Usage notes

Used only for whole hundreds (a final 00 in a number), and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,900 m is one zero thousand nine hundred meter, but 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.


ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
code Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal

References

  1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English

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English numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  → , , , 200  → 
10
    Cardinal: hundred
    Ordinal: hundredth
    Multiplier: hundredfold
    Latinate multiplier: centuple
    Germanic collective: hundred
    Collective of n parts: centuplet
    Metric collective prefix: hecto-
    Metric fractional prefix: centi-
    Elemental: centuplet
    Number of years: century, centennium

Alternative forms

  • Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • Roman numerals: C
  • ISO prefix: hecto-
  • Exponential notation: 102

Etymology

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (count), a neuter variant of *radō (row, line, series).[1] Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
  • (mostly nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/
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  • Hyphenation: hun‧dred

Numeral

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
    hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
    a hundred, one hundred
    nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
  2. (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
    • 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
      “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

Usage notes

Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral.

  • a hundred women / one hundred women / the hundred women
  • compare a dozen women / one dozen women / the dozen women
  • compare ten women / the ten women

Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.

  • two hundred women / some hundred women
  • hundreds of women

In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".

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Descendants

  • Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

Translations

Noun

hundred (plural hundreds)

  1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
  2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
  3. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
  4. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
    He made a hundred in the historic match.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • (administrative division): See carucate (1100 hundred & for smaller divisions)

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See also

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*radō”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401

Anagrams

Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse hundrað (hundred), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (count).

Pronunciation

Numeral

hundred

  1. hundred

Descendants

Noun

hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)

  1. a unit of about one hundred

Middle English

Middle English numbers (edit)
 ←  10  ←  90 100 1,000  → 
10
    Cardinal: hundred
    Ordinal: hundred
    Multiplier: hundredfold

Etymology 1

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (hundred); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundərd/

Numeral

hundred

  1. A hundred; 100.
  2. A large number; a zillion.
Usage notes

Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

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Noun

hundred (plural hundredes)

  1. A hundredweight.
  2. A hundred (administrative division)
  3. The assembly or court of such a division.
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Etymology 2

Middle English numbers (edit)
 ←  10  ←  90 100 1,000  → 
10
    Cardinal: hundred
    Ordinal: hundred
    Multiplier: hundredfold

A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (hundred) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundər/

Adjective

hundred

  1. A hundredth.
Descendants
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Old English

Old English numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: hund, hundred, hundtēontiġ
    Ordinal: hundtēontigoþa
    Age: hundtēontiġwintre, hundwintre, ānhundwintre
    Multiplier: hundfeald, hundtēontiġfeald

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (hundred), from *hundą + *radą (count), a neuter variant of *radō (row, line, series).[1]

Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.

Pronunciation

Numeral

hundred n

  1. hundred

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative hundred hundredu
accusative hundred hundredu
genitive hundredes hundreda
dative hundrede hundredum

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References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*radō”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401