Standard Lemma guide
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adj
Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Indo-European-studies, not-comparable
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Antonyms: satem
adj
Alternative letter-case form of centum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, not-comparable
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noun
Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Sanskrit and other Indian philology
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noun
Perfect score on a board examination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem.
Calque of Sanskrit शतक (śataka, “a hundred; a satakam”). The latter meaning is attested at least since 1991 and is explained by 100-point academic grading in India.
