NOUN
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile
How To Use centesimo In A Sentence
- The Swiss franc can be subdivided into hundredths known as Rappen in German, centime in French, centesimo in Italian and rap in Rhaeto-Romanic.
- Greece, drachm and lepta; in Roumania, lei and bani: in Servia, dinar and para; in Spain, peseta and centesimo; but in all cases the value is the same. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
- But this was still meant to be a year in which every centesimo was being watched.
- It was subdivided into 100 centesimi (singular: centesimo), which translates to "one hundredth".
- The nuevo peso was also subdivided into 100 centésimos.
- This was the peso, equal to the 8 Argentine reales and, from 1840, subdivided into 100 centésimos, with some paper money also issued in reales.
- The face value of a 1 centesimo coin from Panama is 1/100 of a colon, a fraction of a US cent.
