The corpus record — Latin

centesimus

the hundredth

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Where it lives

De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8 · 1.01/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters to Atticus 7 · 0.57/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

centēsĭmus — Lewis & Short

centēsĭmus, a, um,

I num. ordin. [centum], the hundredth: pars, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 166: lux ab interitu Clodii, Cic. Mil. 35, 98 al.—

B Subst.: centēsĭma, ae, f. (sc. pars), the hundredth part of a thing, as a revenue, tax, a percentage: rerum venalium, Tac. A. 1, 78; cf. id. ib. 2, 42.—And of interest, 1 per cent. monthly; therefore, acc. to our manner of computing interest, 12 per cent. annually, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11 sq.; Sen. Ben. 7, 10: binae, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 165.—

II For centuplex, a hundredfold: frux, Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 24: grano, id. 18, 16, 40, § 141; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 44, 2.

Where it came from

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