cent.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (abbreviations): cent.

語源

From 中期英語 cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

発音

• 韻: -ɛnt
• enPR: sĕnt, IPA: /sɛnt/
• 異形同音異義語: scent, sent

名詞

cent (plural cents or cent)

1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
   • 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.

2. (informal) A small sum of money.

   He blew every last cent.

   • 1990, Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, →ISBN, page 10:

     Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies.

3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
5. (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
6. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
7. Abbreviation of century.
8. (obsolete, except in per cent and cent percent) Abbreviation of Latin centum (“one hundred”).
   • c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4:

     And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.

   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372:

     The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.

9. Abbreviation of centigrade.
10. Abbreviation of center.

使用する際の注意点

• Due to the differing plural formats used in European languages, it is common to use the word cent as a plural throughout the Eurozone.

同意語

• (of a dollar): dollarcent
• (of a euro): Eurocent
• (coin (Canada, US)): penny

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参考

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• NCTE, tecn-