centesimus

centēsĭmus, a, um, 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.