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cien.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cien.
Principal English Translation: 

one hundred
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Although taken as a loan, cien or cientos, multiples of one hundred, could still have a vigesimal flavor as we see in the example from sixteenth-century Guatemala, where six hundred is attested as "four hundred and two hundred."

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ayac quitlaxtavil guatrociendo y toçiendo ayac ytaxtavil maçeval yyuatl oquitlatlacu macevali = Hicieron servir a seiscientos macehuales sin pago, los esclavizaron.
Nuestro pesar, nuestra aflicción / tunetuliniliz, tucucuca; Memorias en lengua náhuatl enviadas a Felipe II por indígenas del Valle de Guatemala hacia 1572, introduction by Cristopher H. Lutz, paleography and translation by Karen Dakin (México: UNAM and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, 1996, 78–79.