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Meaning of centum | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈkɛntəm

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of centum.
    alt-of, not-comparable
  2. Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
    Indo-European-studies, not-comparable

Equivalents

Français centum

Examples

“Table 10.1 shows the relative chronology of centum and satem entries to the west. Along each trajectory, centum languages precede satem languages, and the frontier languages, thos most clearly showing peripheral type shift, are centum.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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