centésimo

centésimo (plural centésimos)

1. Alternative form of centesimo (“monetary unit in Uruguay, Panama and (formerly) Chile”).
   • 1924, T[homas] S[igismund] Stribling, Red Sand, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 218:

     I knew you were waiting for somebody or something, a woman, a baggage, some señorita who doesn’t care two centésimos for you and is after your bolivars!

   • 1973, Theodore V[ern] Buttrey, Jr., “[The Spanish Tradition] The Spanish American Republics”, in Coinage of the Americas, New York, N.Y.: The American Numismatic Society, →LCCN, page 59:

     A coinage of bronze centésimos had been struck in Lyons, Paris, and Birmingham between 1840 and 1869, but only in 1877 was a proper coinage of silver 10, 20, and 50 centésimos, and 1 peso struck to the specifications of the Latin Monetary Union.

   • 2013, Kenneth Cameron, The Haunted Martyr, Rearsby, Leics.: W F Howes Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:

     The Signora, overseeing the process, was scandalised all over again and flew into a rage when Janet offered her one centésimo, the smallest bit of money that was made.

centésimo

1. neuter of centésimu

• Hyphenation: cen‧té‧si‧mo

centésimo (feminine centésima, masculine plural centésimos, feminine plural centésimas)

1. (ordinal number) hundredth

centésimo m (plural centésimos)

1. (fractional number) hundredth (one of one hundred parts of a whole)

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θenˈtesimo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪e.si.mo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /senˈtesimo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪e.si.mo]
• Rhymes: -esimo
• Syllabification: cen‧té‧si‧mo

centésimo (feminine centésima, masculine plural centésimos, feminine plural centésimas)

1. (ordinal number) hundredth

centésimo m (plural centésimos)

1. (fractional number) hundredth
2. cent (one hundredth of a currency unit) for the Panamanian balboa and Uruguayan peso

   Synonyms: centavo, céntimo

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