英文词源
- cent
- cent: [16] Centum is the Latin word for ‘hundred’ – indeed both come ultimately from the same Indo-European source, *kmtóm. It first appeared in English in the form cent in the phrase per cent (originally used apparently by the financier Sir Thomas Gresham in a letter of 1568: ‘the interest of xij per cent by the year’); this was probably borrowed from Italian per cento (it is not a genuine Latin phrase). The use of cent for a unit of currency dates from the 1780s, when it was adopted by the newly founded USA; its status as one hundredth of a dollar was officially ordained by the Continental Congress on 8 August 1786.
=> century - cent (n.)
- late 14c., from Latin centum "hundred" (see hundred). Middle English meaning was "one hundred," but it shifted 17c. to "hundredth part" under influence of percent. Chosen in this sense in 1786 as a name for a U.S. currency unit by Continental Congress. The word first was suggested by Robert Morris in 1782 under a different currency plan. Before the cent, Revolutionary and colonial dollars were reckoned in ninetieths, based on the exchange rate of Pennsylvania money and Spanish coin.
中文词源
cent：分
来自词根cent, 百，百分之一，词源同hundred. 用于货币单位指分。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cent 词源，cent 含义。
cent：分（辅币单位）
ccnt是美国政治家、外交家莫里斯（Gouverneur Morris，1752 - 1816)在独立战争时期引进美国英语用以取代penny（便士）的。在他担任财政督办助理的任期内(1781 -1785)，他曾提出关于以dollar和cent作为货币单位的十进位制的建议，此建议后经杰斐逊(Thomas Jefferson，1743 -1826)修改，成为现行美国货币制度的基础。cent直接借自法语，它在法语是“一百”的意思，源自拉丁文centum（一百），汉译作“分”。今天cent已成为一种极为通用的辅币单位，为dollar（元）及其他多种货币的1%。
cent：百，分(币)
来源于拉丁语名词centum(一百)。
-cent-百 → cent
cent：美分
来自拉丁语centum（百），和hundred（百）同源，体会cent和hund的c、h音变关系；cent第一次出现在英语中是在短语per cent（百分之...）里；18世纪80年代，美国将其设为货币单位，并于1786年开始表示美元的“百分之一”；因为cent根义为“百”，所以有century（世纪）。