centennial

See also: Centennial

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin centennis

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Late Latin centennium

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālislbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English centennial

From Late Latin centennium (“period of 100 years, century”) + English -al (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɛnɪəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

centennial (not comparable)

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

   a centennial ode

2. Happening once in a hundred years.

   a centennial jubilee    a centennial celebration

3. Lasting or aged a hundred years.
   • 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 34:

     In her grand villa, half-way up the hill, / O'erlooking Florence, but retired and still; / With iron gates, that opened through long lines / Of sacred ilex and centennial pines, […]

Synonyms

• hundred-year-old, centenary

Derived terms

• demisesquicentennial
• intercentennial

Noun

centennial (plural centennials)

1. The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.

   Synonym: centenary

   Hypernym: anniversary

   Coordinate terms: bicentennial (200), semiquincentennial (250), sestercentennial (250), tricentennial (300), quincentennial (500), millennial (1000)

Derived terms

• centennially
• multicentennial, semicentennial, quasquicentennial, sesquicentennial, bicentennial, tricentennial, quadricentennial, quincentennial, sexcentennial, septicentennial, octocentennial

Translations

100th anniversary

• Armenian: հարյուրամյակ (hy) (haryuramyak)
• Bulgarian: стогодишнина f (stogodišnina)
• Catalan: centenari (ca) m
• Czech: sté výročí
• Danish: hundredårsdag
• Dutch: eeuwfeest (nl)
• Finnish: satavuotispäivä
• French: centenaire (fr) m
• Georgian: ასი წლისთავი (asi c̣listavi)
• German: Hundertjahrfeier f, hundertster Jahrestag m
• Greek: εκατονταετηρίδα (el) f (ekatontaetirída)
• Hungarian: centenárium (hu)
• Italian: centenario (it) m
• Japanese: センテニアル (senteniaru)
• Latvian: simtgadu
• Lithuanian: šimtmetis (lt)
• Macedonian: стогоди́шнина f (stogodíšnina)
• Norman: chent'naithe m
• Norwegian: hundreårsdag
• Polish: stulecie (pl) n
• Portuguese: centenário (pt) m
• Romanian: centenar (ro)
• Russian: столе́тие (ru) n (stolétije), столе́тняя годовщи́на f (stolétnjaja godovščína)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan nan ceud bliadhna m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стогодишњица f, столеће n

  Latin: stogodišnjica (sh) f, stoleće n

• Slovak: storočnica f
• Spanish: centenario (es) m
• Swedish: hundraårsdag c
• Turkish: yüzüncü yıldönümü

See also

• Thesaurus:frequency

References

• “centennial, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.