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Century

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a period of one hundred years
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Stage 1 of 2
centuria
Latin · ancient
"a group of one hundred"
a group of one hundred, especially a Roman military unit
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Stage 2 of 2
century
English · 1550s
"a period of one hundred years"
settled as the English word for a period of one hundred years
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