Millenium
Actually, a millennium is a thousand years. That is ten centuries NOT a hundred centuries. There is no single word to describe a hundred centuries.
A word for a hundred years is a century. A word for fifty years is half a century.
Cent meaning one hundred
No single person is know to have created this or most other words in the English language. The word "century" is derived from a Latin word meaning "one hundred."Century1533, "one hundred (of anything)," from L. centuria "group of one hundred" (including a measure of land and a division of the Roman army headed by a centurion), from centum "hundred." The Mod.E. meaning is attested from 1628, short for century of years.Above retrieved from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=century
It comes from the latin word "Centum" that means one hundred
I'm guessing one hundred years due to the word 'century.'
Century derives from the Latin centuria, meaning "group of one hundred".
One hundred years is one century. The basic design of automobile tires has not changed in more than a century. The century plant gets its name from the long period between successive blooms.
Cent is the root word in the word century. This root word means thousand.
One century.
The word century is a noun. A century is a period of one hundred (100) years.
A period of 100 years is conveyed by the single word century.
"Century", from the Latin centus meaning one hundred. The same root gives us the word "Centurion", an officer who commands 100 soldiers, and "cent", for one hundredth of a dollar.