centenarius

Latin

Etymology

From centēnus (“hundredfold”) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”, adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ken.teːˈnaː.ri.us/, [kɛn̪t̪eːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen.teˈna.ri.us/, [t͡ʃen̪t̪eˈnäːrius]

Adjective

centēnārius (feminine centēnāria, neuter centēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. containing a hundred
2. hundredfold
3. (of a racehorse) having won a hundred races

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	centēnārius	centēnāria	centēnārium		centēnāriī	centēnāriae	centēnāria
genitive	centēnāriī	centēnāriae	centēnāriī		centēnāriōrum	centēnāriārum	centēnāriōrum
dative	centēnāriō	centēnāriae	centēnāriō		centēnāriīs
accusative	centēnārium	centēnāriam	centēnārium		centēnāriōs	centēnāriās	centēnāria
ablative	centēnāriō	centēnāriā	centēnāriō		centēnāriīs
vocative	centēnārie	centēnāria	centēnārium		centēnāriī	centēnāriae	centēnāria

Descendants

• Catalan: centenari
• French: centenaire
• Galician: centenario
• Italian: centenario
• Portuguese: centenário
• Romanian: centenar
• Spanish: centenario
• → Ancient Greek: κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion) (Byzantine Greek)
• → Arabic: قِنْطَار (qinṭār) (see there for further descendants)
• → English: centenary, centenarian
• → German: Zentner
  • → Georgian: ცენტნერი (cenṭneri)
• → Maltese: ċentinarju
• → Vilamovian: cȧnkner

See also

• ducenarius

References

• “centenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• centenarius 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)
• centenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.