† centainen.

Forms: Middle English centeyn, Middle English–1500s centayne.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French centaine.

Etymology: < Middle French centaine, centayne group of a hundred (12th cent. in Old French as centeine ), (specifically) military division of the Roman army comprising a hundred men (a1425) < classical Latin centēna (neuter plural) a hundred things each, used as noun in post-classical Latin to denote an army division (7th cent.) < centum hundred (see centum n.²) + -ēna , neuter of -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives (see nonagenarian n.). Compare Old Occitan centena (14th cent.), Spanish centena (first half of the 15th cent.), both in sense ‘group of a hundred’. Compare century n. 2.With use in quot. a1450 compare Anglo-Norman centaines et milliers (hyperbolically) in very great numbers (c1235); compare also quot. ?a1400 at centenier n.

Obsolete.

A military unit of a hundred men; = century n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > group of a hundred

centainea1450

centumvirate1661

century1773

centum1835

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 3537 (MED) Þe Mylers [?a1400 Petyt Milleners] & þe Centaynes ffolowed faste on þo Romaynes.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1553 (MED) And iiii on hors and iiii o foote anyght In euery centeyn hadde wacch to kepe.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxj He should ayde hym..with certen centaynes of horsemen [L. equitum centurias aliquot].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	centaine
释义	† centainen. Forms: Middle English centeyn, Middle English–1500s centayne. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French centaine. Etymology: < Middle French centaine, centayne group of a hundred (12th cent. in Old French as centeine ), (specifically) military division of the Roman army comprising a hundred men (a1425) < classical Latin centēna (neuter plural) a hundred things each, used as noun in post-classical Latin to denote an army division (7th cent.) < centum hundred (see centum n.²) + -ēna , neuter of -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives (see nonagenarian n.). Compare Old Occitan centena (14th cent.), Spanish centena (first half of the 15th cent.), both in sense ‘group of a hundred’. Compare century n. 2.With use in quot. a1450 compare Anglo-Norman centaines et milliers (hyperbolically) in very great numbers (c1235); compare also quot. ?a1400 at centenier n. Obsolete. A military unit of a hundred men; = century n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred > group of a hundred centainea1450 centumvirate1661 century1773 centum1835 a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 3537 (MED) Þe Mylers [?a1400 Petyt Milleners] & þe Centaynes ffolowed faste on þo Romaynes. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1553 (MED) And iiii on hors and iiii o foote anyght In euery centeyn hadde wacch to kepe. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxj He should ayde hym..with certen centaynes of horsemen [L. equitum centurias aliquot]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1450
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