Etymograph

English

centennial

Centennial comes from Latin centennis.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcentennis
  2. Late Latinmoderncentennium
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1863centennial

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcentennis
  2. Late Latinmoderncentennium
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1863centennial

Earliest quotation: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.: “In her grand villa, half-way up the hill, /…”

Every English word from Latin centennis

Today it means

adj Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin centennis / centennial

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