centavo

From Spanish or Portuguese.

• IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo

centavo (plural centavos)

1. Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
2. A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
3. (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).

• IPA^(key): /sen.ta.vo/ ~ /sɛn.ta.vo/
• Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo

centavo m (plural centavos)

1. centavo

From cento (“hundred”) +‎ -avo.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈta.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: cen‧tà‧vo

centavo m (plural centavi)

1. centavo

• covante, vocante

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centavo m (definite singular centavoen, indefinite plural centavos or centavo, definite plural centavoene)

1. a centavo

3=centavos
4=centavoane
ip2=centavo

centavo m (plural centavoen)

1. a centavo

From cento (“hundred”) +‎ -avo.

• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo

centavo m (plural centavos)

1. cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)

• cêntimo

• “centavo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “centavo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• ctvo.

From ciento (“hundred”) +‎ -avo.

• IPA^(key): /θenˈtabo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /senˈtabo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: cen‧ta‧vo

centavo (feminine centava, masculine plural centavos, feminine plural centavas)

1. (fractional number) hundredth

   Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo

   una centava parte ― a hundredth part

centavo m (plural centavos)

1. (fractional number) hundredth

   Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo

   siete centavos ― seven hundredths (⁷⁄₁₀₀)

2. cent (subunit of currency in US and other countries)

   Synonym: céntimo

• → Catalan: centau
• → Catalan: centavo

• “centavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025