English
Etymology
From Latin #Latin|cento �patchwork garment�.
Noun
en-noun|pl=centos or (obsolete) centones
- A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
#*2007: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. � William Poole, �Out of his Furrow�, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 16
Italian
Etymology
Latin centum
Pronunciation
cènto, /�t��nto/, /<tt>"tSEnto</tt>/
Adjective
cento (invariable)
- hundred
Noun
cento m
- hundred
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