centre
Catalan
noun
Definitions
- center point in the interior of a circle
- center middle portion of something
- center place where some function or activity occurs
- center topic that is particularly important
- downtown business center of a city
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centrum (centre, center, center point, central) derived from Ancient Greek κέντρον (sharp point, center, goad, thorn, something with a sharp point, centre, centre of a circle, spur).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κέντρον
Gloss
sharp point, center, goad, thorn, something with a sharp point, centre, centre of a circle, spur
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
央
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- centrum English
- cento Latin
- centralis Latin
- centrum Latin
- centrālis Latin
- cintrum Latin
- Zentrum German
- centrum Hungarian
- centro Italian
- centrum Dutch, Flemish
- centre French
- centrifuge French
- центр Russian
- centro Spanish, Castilian
- δίς Ancient Greek
- κέντρον Ancient Greek
- κεντέω Ancient Greek
- κεντρομυρσίνη Ancient Greek
- *bʰewg- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱent- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱent-r-om, *ḱentrom Proto-Indo-European
- sentrum Norwegian Bokmål
- centro Portuguese
- centrum Swedish
- centrum Polish
- sentrum Norwegian Nynorsk
- केन्द्र Sanskrit
- centrum Czech
- قنطرة, اَلْقَنْطَرَة Arabic
- قَنْطَرَة Arabic
- centar Serbo-Croatian
- центар Serbo-Croatian
- centredreta Catalan, Valencian
- centreesquerra Catalan, Valencian
- centrisme Catalan, Valencian
- centrista Catalan, Valencian
- cèntric Catalan, Valencian
- dreta Catalan, Valencian
- esquerra Catalan, Valencian
- heliocèntric Catalan, Valencian
- centro Galician
- կենտրոն Armenian
- centrs Latvian
- qendër Albanian
- centre Middle French
- центар Macedonian
- центр Ukrainian
- કેંદ્ર Gujarati
- centru Asturian
- ܩܶܢܛܪܳܘܢ Classical Syriac