Penny.
Cents, Pence ------ You can refer to the penny as a copper, cent or a pence.
Cent has one syllable.
It derives from the latin word "centum," meaning hundred. Thus, a cent is a hundredth of a dollar.
The prefix cent- derives from the Latin word cent, meaning 100.
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Cent.
At the time, I was down on my luck and didn't have a cent to my name.
Cent is the root word in the word century. This root word means thousand.
A cent is the basic unit of many modern currencies. There are 100 cents to the major unit of currency. The word cent derives from the Latin "centum" meaning hundred. Depending on the origin of the coin, cent may be written as cent, centi, senti, centavo, centisimo and a variety of other words based on the root word cent.
sent
A quarter
The 50 cent word as we used to say would be the French one 'ARGOT'. A 'cant' would be another term for secret lingo. ...innuendo, slang, encrypted sentences, a riddle may be others.