## AI Etymology
Centenarian comes from Latin centenarius ('containing a hundred, of a hundred'), from centeni ('a hundred each'), from centum ('hundred'), + -an. The historical trail runs through centenarius in Latin and centum in Latin. Morphologically, centenarian is transparent: it draws on Latin centenarius ('containing a hundred, of a hundred'), from centeni ('a hundred each'), from centum ('hundred'), + -an. Used as a noun and adjective, centenarian now means "a person who is a hundred or more years old", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as centenary, centennial, and century. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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