A monetary unit equal to one hundredth of the main currency unit in various Italian and Spanish-speaking countries.
From Italian/Spanish 'centesimo' (hundredth), derived from Latin 'centesimus.' Each country's centesimo represents one one-hundredth of their primary currency.
The centesimo shows how language and currency are tangled together—the word itself tells you it's a hundredth, making the monetary system's logic completely transparent.
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