centuria

See also: centúria

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

Noun

centuria f (plural centuries)

  1. century (100 years)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -urja

Noun

centuria f (plural centurie)

  1. century (Roman army unit)

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From centum (one hundred).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kenˈtu.ri.a/, [kɛnˈtʊ.ri.a]

Noun

centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension

  1. century, in its senses as
    1. any assembly of a hundred people or things
    2. any division into a hundred people or things
    3. (historical military) a company of Roman infantry, the smallest tactical division of a legion, originally of 100 men but later varying between 60 and 160
    4. (historical military) a company of auxiliary infantry equivalent to an Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
    5. (historical units of measure) a unit of area
    6. (historical politics) a traditional division of the Roman people, allegedly established by Servius Tullius on the basis of property
  2. (figuratively) any similar division, regardless of number

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative centuria centuriae
Genitive centuriae centuriārum
Dative centuriae centuriīs
Accusative centuriam centuriās
Ablative centuriā centuriīs
Vocative centuria centuriae

Meronyms

  • (unit of soldiers): contubernium (110 centuria after 107 BC); manipulus (2 centuriae after c. 315 BC); cohors (6 centuriae after 107 BC), legio (notionally 60 centuriae)
  • (unit of area): decempeda (157,600 centuria); clima (11600 centuria); actus (1400 centuria); iugerum (1200 centuria); heredium (1100 centuria); saltus (4 centuriae)
  • (political assembly): comitia centuriata (quorum of the 193 centuriae)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • centuria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • centuria in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • centuria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • centuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
    • to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49)
    • to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
  • centuria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • centuria in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • centuria in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɛnˈturʲ.ja/

Noun

centuria f

  1. century (Roman army unit)
  2. centaury, any herb of the genus Centaurium

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

Pronunciation

  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /θen.ˈtu.ɾja/
  • (Others) IPA(key): /sen.ˈtu.ɾja/

Noun

centuria f (plural centurias)

  1. century (Roman army unit)
  2. (poetic) century (period)

Synonyms

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