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noun a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg
noun a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
originBorrowed from French centime. By surface analysis, cent- + -ime. Doublet of centim, centimo, and santim.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0