centum

adj

1. (Indo-European-studies, not-comparable)Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

   “Table 10.1 shows the relative chronology of centum and satem entries to the west. Along each trajectory, centum languages precede satem languages, and the frontier languages, thos most clearly showing peripheral type shift, are centum.”

2. (alt-of, not-comparable)Alternative letter-case form of centum.

noun

1. Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.

   “Tonda-mandala-sātacam, a centum of verses on the Conjeveram country, No. 148, C. M. 73. The sātacam is a poem of one hundred stanzas, in its appropriate metre.”

   “Norman Cutler's Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil Devotion (1987) provides a partial translation, choosing to translate just 50 hymns from the first two centums and a few phalasrutis, or the signature stanzas.”

2. (India)Perfect score on a board exam.

   “Achyuta Satakam is a centum in Prakrit Language; Devanayaka Panchasat (the fifty on Devanayaka), in sanskrit and several poetical works in Tamil.”

   “Though he secured a centum in mathematics, he failed to secure pass marks in other subjects.”

   “Ramesh scored a centum in mathematics.”