Centime

Definition: Centime

Centime

Noun

1. A fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo and Upper Volta.

2. A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit.

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Date "centime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Etymology: Centime \Cen`time"\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression centesimus. See Centesimal.]. (references)

Synonyms: Centime

Crosswords: Centime

French (cent, centime), Hungarian (centime), Swedish (centime).

Expressions using "centime": algerian centime ♦ haitian centime. Additional references.

Beginning with "centime": centime-counting.

Arabic 

‏السنتيم واحد على المائة من الفرنك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сантим. (various references)

Czech

centem. (various references)

French

centime (cent). (various references)

German

rappen (stalk, stem). (various references)

Greek 

εκατοστό, λεπτό (minute, penny). (various references)

Hungarian

centime. (various references)

Italian

centesimo (brighter, cent, centesimal, clearer, groat, hundredth, penny). (various references)

Pig Latin

entimecay.(various references)

Portuguese

cêntimo (cent). (various references)

Russian 

сантим. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

santim. (various references)

Spanish

centimo (centimo), céntimo (cent, penny). (various references)

Swedish

centime. (various references)

Ukrainian

сантим. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "centime": centimes, centimeter, centimeters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Centime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cantine, cenime, Centawer, centi, centile, centine, Centium, centive, Centwine, Cestine, cetane, cetie, cetine, contine, contume, cuntie, entame, entime, Ketambe, Lentinue, Shetima. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cement, emetic, emetin, entice, icemen.

-2 letters: mince, niece.

-3 letters: cent, cete, cine, cite, emic, emit, etic, item, meet, mete, mice, mien, mine, mint, mite, neem, nice, nite, teem, teen, time, tine.

-4 letters: cee, eme, ice, men, met, nee, net, nim, nit, tee, ten, tic, tie, tin.

-5 letters: em, en, et, in, it, me, mi, ne.

+1 letter: centimes, tenesmic.

+2 letters: cementing, cementite, centesimi, centesimo, ecumenist, emittance, impotence, inclement, increment, mincemeat.

+3 letters: antiemetic, cementites, centesimal, centesimos, centimeter, cimetidine, cinematize, clinometer, colemanite, cysteamine, ecumenists, emancipate, emittances, endemicity, enrichment, enticement, entodermic, excitement, impatience, impotences, incitement, incomplete, increments, inducement, ivermectin, lemniscate, maleficent, medicament, mercantile, mesenteric, mincemeats, nematicide, nematocide, remittance, technetium, teleonomic.

+4 letters: achievement, acquirement, actinometer, antiemetics, bewitchment, cementation, centimeters, centromeric, cimetidines, cinematized, cinematizes, clinometers, colemanites, confinement, contumelies, countermine, cysteamines, determinacy, discernment, divorcement, econometric, ecumenicist, ecumenicity, egocentrism, emancipated, emancipates, enchainment, endothecium, endothermic, enrichments, enticements, excitements, freneticism, gametogenic, geomagnetic, hermeneutic, impatiences, impeachment, impenitence, impotencies, incitements, inclemently, incompetent, incremental, incremented, inducements, intumescent, ivermectins, lemniscates, luminescent, maintenance, mantelpiece, medicaments, mendacities, mendicities, metacentric, metagenetic, metanephric, monogenetic, multicenter, multiscreen, nematicides, nematocides, omnipotence, predicament, recriminate, recruitment, reminiscent, remittances, rescindment, technetiums, thermocline, unmedicated.