ciento

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish ciento.

Numeral

ciento

1. hundred.

Latin

Verb

cientō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of cieō

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento     Ordinal: centésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º     Multiplier: céntuplo     Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo
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Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjento/ [ˈθjẽn̪.t̪o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjento/ [ˈsjẽn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: cien‧to
• Homophone: (Latin America) siento

Number

ciento

1. one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)

   Ciento dos personas vinieron.

   One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

• See cien for usage of cien vs. ciento.
• Unlike the words for hundreds of higher order, ciento does not change depending on the gender of the noun it quantifies. Contrast the following:

  ciento veintiuna piezas ― one hundred and twenty-one pieces

  doscientas veintiuna piezas ― two hundred and twenty-one pieces

Derived terms

• ciento y la madre
• de ciento a viento
• de ciento en viento
• quien hace un cesto hará ciento, si le dan mimbres y tiempo

Related terms

• centenario
• cien
• por ciento
• porciento

Descendants

• → Cebuano: siyento
• → Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
• → Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
• → Tagalog: siyento

Noun

ciento m (plural cientos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)

   Compré dos cientos de manzanas.

   I bought two hundred apples.

   (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)

2. (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)

Further reading

• “ciento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025