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noun (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
originFrom Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0