centum

Meanings

Adjective

• referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops

Noun

• satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic
• perfect score on a board exam

Related

Opposite words

• satem

Origin

• , attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨. hundred.
• . The latter meaning is attested at least since 1991 and is explained by 100-point academic grading in India.