centenier

From Middle French centenier, from Latin centēnārius.

centenier (plural centeniers)

1. (obsolete) A centurion.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     In the beginning of his civill warres, his Centeniers offered him every one, at their own charges to pay and find him a man at Armes […].

2. (Jersey) A policeman.

• vingtenier

• renitence

centenier m (plural centeniers)

1. centurion

• “centenier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).