centum

Meanings

1. Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

1. Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.
2. Perfect score on a board exam.

1. Alternative letter-case form of centum.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem.