centēni, ae, a (among the poets and in post-class. prose also in sing.; cf.: bini, terni, etc.; gen. plur. centenūm, like binūm, etc., Plin. 7, 49, 50, § 163 sq. al.), num. distrib. [centum],
I a hundred each , a hundred : illos centeni quemque sequuntur juvenes, Verg. A. 9, 162: centum bracchia Centenaeque manus, id. ib. 10, 566: centenos sestertios militibus est pollicitus, Auct. B. Alex. 48: centena sestertia, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49: vicies centena milia passuum, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 13.—In sing., Verg. A. 10, 207; Mart. 8, 45; Stat. S. 4, 4, 43; Pers. 5, 6.—
II Subst.: centēna , ae, f. (sc. dignitas). = centurionatus, a dignity in the imperial court , Cod. Th. 10, 7, 1 al. — ;
B centēnum , i, n., a kind of grain , = secale (because it bears a hundredfold), Edict. Diocl. p. 27; cf. Isid. Orig. 17, 3, 12, and Plin. 18, 16, 40, § 141.