centuria
See also: centúria
Asturian
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -urja
Latin
Etymology
From centum (“one hundred”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kenˈtu.ri.a/, [kɛnˈtʊ.ri.a]
Noun
centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension
- century, in its senses as
- any assembly of a hundred people or things
- any division into a hundred people or things
- (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
- (historical military) a company of auxiliary infantry equivalent to an Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
- (historical units of measure) a unit of area
- (historical politics) a traditional division of the Roman people, allegedly established by Servius Tullius on the basis of property
- (figuratively) any similar division, regardless of number
Inflection
First declension.
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 (1⁄10 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 (1⁄57,600 centuria); clima (1⁄1600 centuria); actus (1⁄400 centuria); iugerum (1⁄200 centuria); heredium (1⁄100 centuria); saltus (4 centuriae)
- (political assembly): comitia centuriata (quorum of the 193 centuriae)
Derived terms
- centuriālis
- centuriātim
- centuriō
Related terms
Descendants
References
- 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, 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
- to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
- centuria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- centuria in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɛnˈturʲ.ja/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /θen.ˈtu.ɾja/
- (Others) IPA(key): /sen.ˈtu.ɾja/
Synonyms
- (century): siglo m
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