Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

centuriation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cen-turi-a-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does centuriation mean?: A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
Where does centuriation come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.

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