Definitions | centum |
| adjective
- (linguistics) referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that did not produce sibilants from a series of velar stops
Etymology: Latin centum, "hundred", the canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, opposed to Avestan (satÉm) "hundred".
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