adjective. Designating those Indo-European languages, including the Italic, Hellenic, Celtic, and Germanic branches, that merged the palatal velar stops with the plain velars k, g, gh and maintained a distinction between them and the labiovelars k^w, g^w, g^wh.

noun. A hundred: used in the phrase per centum, by the hundred.

adjective. referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that did not produce sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

"Another strange and surprising example is the fact that the English word hundred and its Russian equivalent sto are also clearly connected with each other, and also with the various forms that Latin centum has developed into in the Romance languages."