cem

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English

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Etymology

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Shortening.

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Noun

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cem (plural cems)

  1. (UK, Australia, colloquial) cemetery
    I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.

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Anagrams

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Northern Kurdish

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Pronunciation

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Preposition

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cem

  1. next to

Portuguese

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Portuguese numbers (edit)
1,000
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    Cardinal: (alone or followed by a noun or higher numeral) cem, (followed by a lower numeral) cento
    Ordinal: centésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º
    Multiplier: cêntuplo
    Fractional: centésimo, cem avos

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cen, from cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cem m or f

  1. one hundred (100)
    Vieram cem pessoas.
    One hundred people came.

Noun

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cem m (invariable)

  1. a value of one hundred
    Tirei um cem na prova.
    I got a [score of] one hundred on the test.
  2. (uncommon) a figure representing one hundred (such as 100 or C)
    Está vendo aquele cem?
    Are you seeing that 100?

Usage notes

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  • cem is used when standing alone as a numeral:
    de um até cemfrom one to one hundred
  • cem is used when followed by a noun:
    cem pessoasone hundred people
  • cem is used when followed by a higher numeral:
    cem milone hundred thousand
    cem milhõesone hundred million
  • cento is used when followed by a lower numeral:
    cento e duas pessoasone hundred and two people
  • cento is used as a noun referring to 100 units of something:
    dois centos de maçãstwo hundred apples (literally, “two hundred units of apples”)

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Volapük

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Noun

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cem (nominative plural cems)

  1. room

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Derived terms

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White Hmong

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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cem

  1. to scold; to curse; to revile