🇮🇹 Italian

centesimo

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masculine

il centesimo

cent

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centesimo
/il tʃenˈtɛːzimo/
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How do you say centesimo in Italian?

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/il tʃenˈtɛːzimo/

How do you pronounce centesimo in Italian?

centesimo is pronounced /il tʃenˈtɛːzimo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il centesimo anno della fondazione è stato celebrato con una grande festa.

The hundredth year of the founding was celebrated with a big party.

Ho trovato il centesimo centesimo nella mia tasca, era una moneta molto rara.

I found the hundredth cent in my pocket, it was a very rare coin.

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Why is it masculine?

Centesimo is masculine because it derives from Latin "centesimus" (the ordinal form of "centum," meaning hundred), which was grammatically masculine, and Italian retained this gender from its Romance language ancestry. The -o ending in Italian typically marks masculine nouns, reinforcing the gender that came down from Latin.

What is the Italian word for cent?

The Italian word for cent is il centesimo — masculine.

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