Talk:centimate
Add topicLatest comment: 6 months ago by 1.129.106.197 in topic EN: Further possible definitions
EN: Further possible definitions
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- To destroy or remove one one-hundredth (i.e. 1%) of anything.
- To reduce to one one-hundredth: to destroy or remove 99% of anything.
—DIV (1.129.111.83 05:20, 23 August 2023 (UTC))
- Apparently centimate is also a formerly proposed name for the Australian currency (never adopted).
- "Imagine that, instead of the name ‘dollar’, the currency in Australia was called the ‘inflato’. That was one of the names suggested to Prime Minister Holt for the new decimal currency introduced in 1966. The ‘royal’ was the most favoured name, but others suggested were ‘austral’, ‘A.B.C.D.’, ‘aborroo’, ‘anzac’, ‘centimate’, ‘deci-cur’, ‘dollauster’, ‘kanoala’, ‘howzat’, ‘macquarie’, ‘oz’ and ‘sheepsback’."
- Principles of Macroeconomics eBook, 8th Asia–Pacific Edition (Stonecash et al.) 2021, →ISBN.
- But I suppose this doesn't merit a mention in the entry.
- —DIV (1.145.57.145 14:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC))
- Someone has mistakenly extended the Latin etymology of 'decimate' to create this word to mean "reducing by 1/100". The correct term is "centesimate" for which there is already an entry. This entry should be deleted unless it having been proposed as a name for the Australian decimal currency is sufficiently notable (I don't think that it is). 220.235.78.155 15:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Following your remarks, I suppose the Latin-derived prefix deci- (¹⁄₁₀) may be cognate with centesi- (¹⁄₁₀₀), whilst centi- (100) would be cognate with deca- (10).
- Wiktionary more-or-less documents intentional usage. If people are intentionally using this to mean "reducing by 1/100" — or "reducing to 1/100" or "selecting 1 out of 100" — then the entry must remain. Of course, the search for citations here is incomplete. On the other hand, there are no citations given for centesimate currently ...but there are plenty for centesimation.
- —DIV (1.129.106.197 09:20, 22 July 2024 (UTC))
- Consider also the precedent of centimetre (¹⁄₁₀₀ m) and decimetre (¹⁄₁₀ m). —DIV (1.129.106.197 09:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC))
- Someone has mistakenly extended the Latin etymology of 'decimate' to create this word to mean "reducing by 1/100". The correct term is "centesimate" for which there is already an entry. This entry should be deleted unless it having been proposed as a name for the Australian decimal currency is sufficiently notable (I don't think that it is). 220.235.78.155 15:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)