Talk:centimate

EN: Further possible definitions
The following should be checked before adding. —DIV (1.129.111.83 05:20, 23 August 2023 (UTC))
 * To destroy or remove one one-hundredth (i.e. 1%) of anything.
 * To reduce to one one-hundredth: to destroy or remove 99% of anything.


 * Apparently centimate is also a formerly proposed name for the Australian currency (never adopted).
 * "Imagine that, instead of the name ‘dollar’, the currency in Australia was called the ‘inflato’. That was one of the names suggested to Prime Minister Holt for the new decimal currency introduced in 1966. The ‘royal’ was the most favoured name, but others suggested were ‘austral’, ‘A.B.C.D.’, ‘aborroo’, ‘anzac’, ‘centimate’, ‘deci-cur’, ‘dollauster’, ‘kanoala’, ‘howzat’, ‘macquarie’, ‘oz’ and ‘sheepsback’."
 * Principles of Macroeconomics eBook, 8th Asia–Pacific Edition (Stonecash et al.) 2021, ISBN 9780170445658.
 * But I suppose this doesn't merit a mention in the entry.
 * —DIV (1.145.57.145 14:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC))

Someone has mistakenly extended the Latin etymology of 'decimate' to create this word to mean "reducing by 1/100". The correct term is "centesimate" for which there is already an entry. This entry should be deleted unless it having been proposed as a name for the Australian decimal currency is sufficiently notable (I don't think that it is). 220.235.78.155 15:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)