Centum

Quick meaning: Centum is an adjective meaning (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.

Meaning

(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.

More Meanings

1. (India) Perfect score on a board exam.
2. (Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

Example Sentences

Ramesh scored a centum in mathematics.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• centums

Antonyms for centum

Common opposites include satem.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centuriate, triconsonantal, triphonemic, denumeral, equisonant, centifidous.

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