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

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈtu.rja/
  • Rhymes: -urja
  • Hyphenation: cen‧tù‧ria

Noun

centuria f (plural centurie)

  1. century (Roman army unit)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

*centu-viria, from centum (one hundred) + vir (man) + -ia.[1]

Pronunciation

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 a Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
    5. (historical units of measure) a unit of area, equal to 100 heredia or 200 iugera (approximately 125 acres or 50  hectares)
    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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

  1. T. Mommsen, Römisches Staatsrecht, III.1, Leipzig 1887, p. 104
  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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): /t͡sɛnˈtu.rja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -urja
  • Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

Noun

centuria f

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

Declension

Further reading

  • centuria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • centuria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtuɾja/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtuɾja/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja]
  • Rhymes: -uɾja
  • Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

Noun

centuria f (plural centurias)

  1. century (Roman army unit)
    Synonym: siglo
  2. (poetic) century (period)

Further reading

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