"Centuriate" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Centuriate is a verb that means "to divide into hundreds" or "to arrange in a hundred". In ancient Rome, the centuriate system was a method of organizing the Roman army into units of 100 soldiers each, with commanders drawn from the higher ranks of the centurions.
The word "cents" refers to small units of money, equal to one hundredth of a dollar in the United States.
A centumvirate is a council or board of a hundred members, typically chosen to govern a city or region. The term is derived from the Latin "centum," meaning "hundred," and "vir," meaning "man."