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A penny is just a cent wearing a cuter outfit.
means A cent is one hundredth of a dollar (or euro, or many other decimal currencies) — the smallest common coin denomination in everyday use.
from From Latin 'centum,' meaning 'hundred.' The word entered currency the way the decimal system did: late 1700s coinmakers, especially in the newly minted United States, wanted a name for 'one-hundredth of the main unit,' and Latin obliged. It's kin to 'century,' 'percent,' and 'centipede' — all descendants of that same hundred-root, which is why a cent, a hundred years, and a hundred-legged bug are, etymologically, distant cousins.
- origin
- from Latin centum, meaning one hundred
- cost to make
- costs more than one cent to produce
- global cousins
- euro, dollar, and peso all divide into cents