English Explanatory Dictionary

tricent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).

Word forms

tricent tricents

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) + cent (“hundred”), as if from Latin trecentī passūs (“three hundred paces”), by analogy with the etymology of mile from Latin mīlle passūs (“mile; a thousand paces”).

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