centenier

From Middle French centenier, from Latin centēnārius (“containing 100”), q.v.

centenier (plural centeniers)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of centurion: An officer overseeing 100 men, especially (historical) in the Roman army.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     In the beginning of his civill warres, his Centeniers offered him every one, at their own charges to pay and find him a man at Armes […].

2. (Jersey) Synonym of police officer.

• vingtenier

• renitence, tenrecine

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centenier m (plural centeniers)

1. centurion

• “centenier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.