hundredth

Etymology

From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th. The Old English term was hundtēontigoþa.

adj

  1. The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
    This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why. 2012 March 15, Bruce Springsteen, keynote speech, South by Southwest Music Conference

noun

  1. The person or thing in the hundredth position.
  2. One of a hundred equal parts of a whole.

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