cêntimo

See also: centimo and céntimo

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cêntimo.

Noun

cêntimo (plural cêntimos)

1. Alternative form of centimo in Portuguese context.
   • 1985, Quarterly Economic Review of Angola, São Tomé & Principe, number 1, London: Economist Intelligence Unit, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

     The Portuguese escudo was replaced by a national currency, the dobra (divided into 100 cêntimos), in September 1977.

   • 2010, Ke Huang, “Lullaby: Barcarole”, in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology, One Million Stories Small Press, →ISBN, page 85:

     What do you mean 'too much education?' I won't spend a cêntimo of your precious money. I'll go if I get a scholarship.

   • 2014, José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, chapter 31, in Skylight, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 249:

     Paulino, you say you believe what’s in that letter, and you, my mother, find me accused of having an affair with a young man who, I imagine, hasn’t a cêntimo to his name. So why don’t you both just leave?

Portuguese

Etymology

From French centime.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.t͡ʃi.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.t͡ʃi.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.t͡ʃi.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.ti.mu/

• Hyphenation: cên‧ti‧mo

Noun

cêntimo m (plural cêntimos)

1. cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries)
   1. cent (one-hundredth of a euro)

See also

• euro