# cento

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #68,914

## Definitions
1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

## Etymology
From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

## Source
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Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cento