Translation
century
Word origin
An Esperanto compound: jaro ('year', from German Jahr) plus cent ('hundred', from Latin centum). A jarcento is literally a year-hundred, the same arithmetic as English century from centum.
- Origin
- Esperanto, from German Jahr and Latin centum
- Root
- jaro + cento
- English cognates
- century, cent
Examples
deknaŭa .
Esperanto was born in the nineteenth century.
.
The castle has stood there for three centuries already.
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One century has a hundred years.
Another self-decoding compound: + . The pattern extends both ways: is a decade and jarmilo a millennium.
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