procent

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

procent n

  1. genitive plural of procento

Danish

Etymology

From German Prozent.

Pronunciation

Noun

procent c (singular definite procenten, plural indefinite procenter)

  1. percent

Inflection

Declension of procent
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative procent procenten procenter procenterne
genitive procents procentens procenters procenternes

Following a number, numeral or other quantity specification:

Declension of procent
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative procent procenten procent procenterne
genitive procents procentens procents procenternes

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proːˈsɛnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pro‧cent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

procent n (plural procenten, diminutive procentje n)

  1. percent
    Coordinate term: promille

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Caribbean Javanese: persèn, prosèn
  • Indonesian: prosen

Kashubian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish procent.

Pronunciation

Noun

procent m inan

  1. percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: rińta
  2. (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: rińta
  3. percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)
    Synonym: rińta

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “procąt”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 161
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “procent”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi, volume 2, page 628
  • procent”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka , Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Verb

procent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of procō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent. First attested in the 18th century.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

procent m inan (diminutive procencik, related adjective procentowy, abbreviation proc.)

  1. (finance, mathematics) percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: odsetek
  2. (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: oprocentowanie
  3. percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), procent is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 58 times in scientific texts, 79 times in news, 153 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 295 times, making it the 803rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “procent”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “procent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “procent”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “procent”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “procent”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 434

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent.

Noun

procent n (plural procente)

  1. percent

Declension

Declension of procent
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative procent procentul procente procentele
genitive-dative procent procentului procente procentelor
vocative procentule procentelor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent, ultimately from Latin per centum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǒt͡sent/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧cent

Noun

pròcent m (Cyrillic spelling про̀цент)

  1. percent
  2. percentage

Declension

Declension of procent
singular plural
nominative pròcent procenti
genitive procenta pròcenātā
dative procentu procentima
accusative procent procente
vocative procente procenti
locative procentu procentima
instrumental procentom procentima

See also

References

  • procent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

procent c

  1. percent
    Synonym: hundradel

Declension

Derived terms

References