Centimo

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cent, i.e. ¹⁄₁₀₀, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value.
  2. 2
    a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish céntimo, derived from French centime, from cent (on the model of décime), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centim, centime, and santim.

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