centavo

English

Etymology

From Spanish or Portuguese.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/
  • (file)

Noun

centavo (plural centavos)

  1. Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
  2. A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
  3. (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).

French

Noun

centavo m (plural centavos)

  1. centavo

Italian

Etymology

From cento (hundred) + -avo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈta.vo/
  • Rhymes: -avo
  • Hyphenation: cen‧tà‧vo

Noun

centavo m (plural centavi)

  1. centavo

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

centavo m (definite singular centavoen, indefinite plural centavos or centavo, definite plural centavoene)

  1. a centavo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

centavo m (plural centavoen)

  1. a centavo

Portuguese

Etymology

From cento (hundred) + -avo.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vo/
 

  • Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
  • Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo

Noun

centavo m (plural centavos)

  1. cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)

Spanish

Spanish numbers (edit)
1,000
[a], [b]   90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento
    Ordinal: centésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º
    Multiplier: céntuplo
    Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ciento (hundred) + -avo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtabo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtabo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Syllabification: cen‧ta‧vo

Adjective

centavo (feminine centava, masculine plural centavos, feminine plural centavas)

  1. (fractional number) hundredth
    Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo
    una centava partea hundredth part

Noun

centavo m (plural centavos)

  1. (fractional number) hundredth
    Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo
    siete centavosseven hundredths (7100)
  2. cent (subunit of currency in US and other countries)
    Synonym: céntimo

Descendants

  • Catalan: centau
  • Catalan: centavo

Further reading

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