centum, indecl. num. [Sanscr. catam; Gr. ἑ-κα-τόν; Goth. hund].
centum căpĭta, a plant, also called erynginm, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 20.
Also cen-tum căput, Plin. 1, epit. 22, n. 9.
Centum Cellae or Centumcellae, ārum, f., a seaport town in Etruria, now Civita Vecchia, Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 1.
centum -vĭri or centum vĭri, ōrum, m., a college or bench of judges chosen annually for civil suits, especially those relating to inheritances; consisting of 105 (in the time of the emperors, of 180) persons, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; id. Caecin. 24, 67; Quint. 3, 10, 3; 4, 2, 5 Spald.; 4, 1, 57; 7, 4, 10; Suet. Aug. 36; id. Dom. 8; Plin. Ep. 6, 33 al.; cf. Fest. s. v. centumviralia, pp. 54 and 64 Müll., and Dict. of Antiq.
Such a college at Perusia, Inscr. Orell. 3719; at Veii, ib. 108; 3448; 3706 al.