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cen|tes|i|mo «sehn TEHS uh moh», noun, plural -mos for 1, 2, 4; -mi«-muh» for 3, 5.

1. a coin of Chile, worth ¹/₁₀₀ of a peso.

2. a coin of Panama, worth ¹/₁₀₀ of a balboa.

3. a former unit of money of Italy, worth ¹/₁₀₀ of a lira. It was used in figuring but not as a coin.

4. a coin of Uruguay, worth ¹/₁₀₀ of a peso.

5. a former coin of Italian Somaliland (now Somalia), worth ¹/₁₀₀ of a somalo.

╂[< Italian, Spanish centésimo, learned borrowing from Latin centēsimus hundredth]