tricent

English

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +‎ cent (“hundred”), as if from Latin trecentī passūs (“three hundred paces”), by analogy with the etymology of mile from Latin mīlle passūs (“mile; a thousand paces”).

Noun

tricent (plural tricents)

1. A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
   • 1994, Zhuangzi, trans. Victor Mair, Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu, page 3:

     The P’eng is so huge that no one knows how many thousands of tricents its back stretches. Rousing itself to flight, its wings are like clouds suspended in the sky.

Esperanto

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

←  200	300	400  →
	30
Cardinal: tricent     Ordinal: tricenta

Etymology

Etymology tree

Russian три (tri)der.

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes

Proto-Italic *trejes

Proto-Italic *trēs

Latin tresder.

Proto-Indo-European *tréyes

Proto-Germanic *þrīz

Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ

Old English þrī

Middle English thre

English threeder.

Esperanto tri

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

Proto-Italic *kəntom

Latin centumder.

Esperanto cent

Esperanto tricent

From tri (“three”) + cent (“hundred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrit͡sent/

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• Rhymes: -it͡sent
• Syllabification: tri‧cent

Numeral

tricent

1. three hundred