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cento1

cento1 · m

a garment of several bits

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 3 · 21.99/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
De Bello Civili 3 · 0.93/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 6 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. cento — Lewis & Short

cento, ōnis, m.ke/ntrwn,

I a garment of several bits or pieces sewed together, a rag-covering, patchwork, etc., Cato ap. Fest. s. v. prohibere, p. 234 Müll.; id. R. R. 2, 3; 10, 5; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 176, 1; Sisenn. ib. p. 91, 27; Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 3, 44 fin.; Dig. 33, 7, 12.—

2 Esp., a cap worn under the helmet, Amm. 19, 8, 8.—

B Prov.: centones sarcire alicui, to impose upon by falsehoods, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 19.—

II The title of a poem made up of various verses of another poem, a cento; so the Cento Nuptialis of Ausonius (the thirteenth of his Idyls), etc., Isid. Orig. 1, 38, 25; Tert. Praescr. 39.

2. Cento — Lewis & Short

Cento, ōnis, m.,

I a Roman cognomen, Cic. Sen. 14, 50.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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