Ahotchpotch, amixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or apoem containing individual lines from other poems.
1659,John Evelyn, “A Character of England, as It was Lately Presented in a Letter to a Nobleman of France.[…] The Third Edition.”, inWilliam Upcott, compiler,The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn,[…], London:Henry Colburn,[…], published1825,→OCLC,page156:
But, Sr, I will no longer tire your patience wth these monsters (the subject of every contemptuous pamphlet) then with the madness of the Anabaptists, Quakers, Fift Monarchy-men, and acento of unheard of heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England, and approach so little to the pretended Reformation, which we in France have been made to believe, that there is nothing more heavenly wide.
Now look out in the Gradus forPurus, and you find as the first synonime,lacteus; forcoloratus, and the first synonime ispurpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in theferrumination of thesecentos.
1915 September, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, inSouthern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number40, page124:
And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."
2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, inLondon Review of Books, volume29, number 3, page16:
Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is acento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.
The indeclinable formcen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining formcento is used, ascento un orcento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" iscento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" iscento cincuenta e catro.
“cento”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cento”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"cento", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“cento”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cento”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 304: “cento” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
