Part of speech: Noun
a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
Categories: Fractional monetary unit, Subunit
The word "centime" was borrowed from French centime.
centimo – A related word in the same word family.
For 300 years after 1066, French was the language of English courts and nobility.