The corpus record — Latin

centeni

a hundred each

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Gallieni Duo 2 · 5.44/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 3 · 2.88/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k

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What it meant

centēni — Lewis & Short

centēni, ae, a (among the poets and in post-class. prose also in

sing.; cf.: bini, terni, etc.;

I gen. plur. centenūm, like binūm, etc., Plin. 7, 49, 50, § 163 sq. al.), num. distrib. [centum], a hundred each, a hundred: illos centeni quemque sequuntur juvenes, Verg. A. 9, 162: centum bracchia Centenaeque manus, id. ib. 10, 566: centenos sestertios militibus est pollicitus, Hirt. B. Alex. 48: centena sestertia, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49: vicies centena milia passuum, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 13.—In sing., Verg. A. 10, 207; Mart. 8, 45; Stat. S. 4, 4, 43; Pers. 5, 6.—

II Subst.: centēna, ae, f. (sc. dignitas). = centurionatus, a dignity in the imperial court, Cod. Th. 10, 7, 1 al.—;

B centēnum, i, n., a kind of grain, = secale (because it bears a hundredfold), Edict. Diocl. p. 27; cf. Isid. Orig. 17, 3, 12, and Plin. 18, 16, 40, § 141.

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