doscientos

Asturian

Numeral

doscientos m pl (feminine plural doscientes)

1. two hundred; 200

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

		2,000
[a], [b] ←  100	←  101	200	300  →
		20
Cardinal: doscientos     Ordinal: ducentésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 200.º     Fractional: ducentésimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 200

Etymology

From dos (“two”) +‎ cientos (“hundreds”), regularization of Old Spanish dozientos (compare Portuguese duzentos), the direct reflex of Latin ducentōs, from duo (“two”) +‎ centum (“hundred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /dosˈθjentos/ [d̪osˈθjẽn̪.t̪os]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /doˈsjentos/ [d̪oˈsjẽn̪.t̪os]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -entos
• Syllabification: dos‧cien‧tos

Numeral

doscientos m (feminine doscientas)

1. two hundred

Related terms

• cientos

 

Further reading

• “doscientos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014