🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

centesimi

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tʃenteˈzimi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cents/sɛnts/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La caramella costa cinquanta centesimi."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A unit of currency equal to one hundredth of a dollar.

    "The candy costs fifty cents."
  2. 2

    A term used to refer to small amounts of money in general.

    "He found a few cents on the ground."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'cents' originates from the Latin 'centum', meaning 'hundred'. It evolved through Old French 'cent' before entering English in the late 14th century, where it came to denote a fractional monetary unit, specifically one-hundredth of a dollar in the United States.

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