Noun: cental
| Singular | cental |
| Plural | centals |
Sample Sentences
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Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental; [1873 April, Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture, page 206:]
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The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel. [1888, C. Frusher Howard, Howard's Anglo-American art of reckoning, page 75:]
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John Hudson & Co. are prepared to undertake the business at a ½d. per cental advance on the price of wheat on 4th July 19000, which is 6s. 5½d. per cental, thus obtaining 6s. 6d. per cental as the contract price. [1901 July 6, Arthur F. Dodd, “Corn Options and Cotton Futures: Their Object and Effect upon Commercial Transactions”, in The Accountant, page 783:]
Nouns inflected like cental
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 Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal. See: Latin Nouns '
centum'.
Verbs referencing "cental"
Finnish Nouns
senttaali.