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centum

cen.tum \'kent-*m, 'ken-.tu.m\ aj [L, hundred; fr. the fact that its 
   initial sound (a velar stop) is the represen]tative of an IE palatal stop : 
   of, relating to, or constituting that part of the Indo-european languag e 
   family in which the palatal stops did not in prehistoric times become 
   palatal or alveolar fricatives