centumplex

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	C 100
	10[a], [b]
Cardinal: centum     Ordinal: centēsimus     Adverbial: centiēs, centiēns     Proportional: centuplus, centumplus     Multiplier: centumplex, centuplex, centiplex     Distributive: centēnus     Fractional: centēsimus

Etymology

From centum (“hundred”) +‎ -plex (“-fold”), from plicō (“to fold”). Compare septemplex, decemplex.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kenˈtum.pleks/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊmpɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈtum.pleks/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪umpleks]

Adjective

centumplex (genitive centumplicis, adverb centumpliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. hundredfold

   Synonyms: centumgeminus, centēnārius

   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 560, (trochaic septenarius):

     [Sag.] Quid id quod vidisti? ut munitum muro tibi visum oppidumst?
     [vir.] Si incolae bene sunt morati, pulchre munitum arbitror.
     perfidia et pecúlatus ex urbe et avaritia si exulant,
     quarta invidia, quinta ambitio, sexta óbtrectatio,
     septimum periurium, [Tox.] Euge. [vir.] Octava indiligentia,
     nona iniuria, decimum, quod pessimum adgressust, scelus:
     haec unde aberunt, ea urbs moenita muro sat erit simplici;
     ubi ea aderunt, centumplex murus rebus servandis parumst.^{[n 1]}

     • 2011 translation by Wolfgang de Melo

       [Sag] What about what you’ve seen? How did the city appear to be fortified with its wall?
       girl: If its inhabitants have a good character, I consider it beautifully fortified. If perfidy and embezzlement and greed have gone into exile from this city, fourth envy, fifth corruption, sixth vilification, seventh perjury—tox (still aside) Hear, hear! girl: —eighth carelessness, ninth injustice, and tenth wickedness, which is most difficult of all to tackle: a city from which these are absent will be fortified sufficiently with a simple wall; where they are present, a hundredfold wall is too little to preserve its contents.

   • 1319, Remigius Florentinus, De peccato usure :

     Puta quando premium excedit meritum et sic accipitur hic quia qui dat elemosinam pauperi centumplum accipiet hic et vitam eternam in futuro ut dicitur Mt. XIX et hoc non est contra legem veterem quia etiam homicidium, mechare sumptum in veteri lege commendatur.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	centumplex			centumplicēs	centumplicia
Genitive	centumplicis			centumplicium
Dative	centumplicī			centumplicibus
Accusative	centumplicem	centumplex		centumplicēs	centumplicia
Ablative	centumplicī			centumplicibus
Vocative	centumplex			centumplicēs	centumplicia

Derived terms

• centumpliciter
• centumplicō

Notes

1. Manuscript readings include both "centumplex" and "centuplex".^[1] However, the meter ("ŭbi‿ĕa‿ădĕru͞nt, ce͞ntu͞mple͞x mūrus || rēbus se͞rva͞ndi͞s păru͞mst") requires a heavy syllable, and a short vowel usually scans as a short syllable before a sequence of a plosive + liquid in Plautus.

References

1. Marçal Olivar, editor (1952), Plaute: Comèdies, vol. VIII: El persa. El cartaginès, Barcelona: Fundació Bernat Metge, page 51