centumgravius

Latin

Etymology

A combination of the Medieval Latin centa, centum (“a territorial association of farms with its own judiciary”) (> Middle High German zent, cent > German Zent) + Old High German grāfio (“count”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ken.tunˈɡraː.u̯i.us/, [kɛn̪t̪ʊŋˈɡräːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen.tunˈɡra.vi.us/, [t͡ʃen̪t̪uŋˈɡräːvius]

Noun

centumgrāvius m (genitive centumgrāviī or centumgrāvī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of centgrāvius (“the judge of a territorial association of farms with its own judiciary”)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	centumgrāvius	centumgrāviī
Genitive	centumgrāviī centumgrāvī1	centumgrāviōrum
Dative	centumgrāviō	centumgrāviīs
Accusative	centumgrāvium	centumgrāviōs
Ablative	centumgrāviō	centumgrāviīs
Vocative	centumgrāvie	centumgrāviī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• centēnārius

References

• centumgravius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “centgravius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 170/2