Noun: centurion
| Singular | centurion |
| Plural | centurions |
Sample Sentences
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“Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.” [2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like centurion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”). See: Latin Nouns '
centuriō', Latin Nouns '
centum', English Nouns '
hundreder', Middle English Nouns '
hundredman', Old English Nouns '
hundredmann'.