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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."

Century

1533, "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.


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