centeni

centeni
centēni, ae, a (among the poets and in post-class. prose also in sing.; cf.: bini, terni, etc.; 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.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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