Borrowed from Latin centrum. Doublet of centre.

centrum (plural centra)

1. A centre.
2. (anatomy)
   1. The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
   2. The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
3. (seismology) The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντέω (kentéō).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛntrum]

centrum n

1. centre (of a city)

   Synonym: střed

   Antonyms: okraj, periferie

   Hotel se nachází v centru města. ― The hotel is located downtown

2. centre (place where activity occurs)

   Synonym: středisko

• “centrum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “centrum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “centrum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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Borrowed from Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.trʏm/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧trum

centrum n (plural centra or centrums, diminutive centrumpje n)

1. the centre, middle of focal part (e.g. of activity)
2. (geometry) centre (UK)
3. a centre, centralised facility; also, gathering place
4. city centre, town centre

   Synonyms: binnenstad, stadscentrum, stadshart, stadskern

• centraal
• centreren

• Afrikaans: sentrum
• → Indonesian: sentra (from the plural)

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛntrum]
• Hyphenation: cent‧rum
• Rhymes: -um

centrum (plural centrumok)

1. centre (the middle of)
2. centre (of a city)
3. centre (of an activity)
4. (geometry) centre
5. (politics) the Centre

• centrum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• centrum in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈken.trum/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.trum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪rum]

centrum n (genitive centrī); second declension

1. center

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• centrālis

• “centrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• centrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• centrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛn.trum/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntrum
• Syllabification: cen‧trum

centrum n

1. centre (of a city)
2. centre (the middle part of)

   Synonym: środek

3. centre (of an activity)
4. (politics) the Centre

• centrum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• centrum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin centrum. Doublet of center.

• IPA^(key): /²sɛnːtrɵm/

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centrum n

1. centre; the middle of something
2. centre; place where a function or activity occurs
3. the central areas of a city or a suburb

• The various declensions are not tied to different meanings of the word, only a sign of the bewilderness of how best to fit this Latin word into Swedish.
• Swedish uses centrum for the shops at the centre of a suburb (Farsta) or small and medium-sized town (Uppsala), while the centre of a larger city (Stockholm) is often called city.

• i händelsernas centrum
• köpcentrum

• central
• centrera

From Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛnt.ɾum/

centrum (definite accusative centrumu, plural centrumlar)

1. centre (central area of a city)