Centavo is a Spanish and Portuguese word, derived from the Latin centum, meaning "one hundred", and the suffix -avo, meaning "portion" or "fraction". Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Centavo means, strictly, "one-hundredth".

It is a fractional monetary unit, used to represent one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world, including:

Circulating

• Argentine peso
• Bolivian boliviano
• Brazilian real
• Cape Verdean escudo
• Chilean peso
• Colombian peso
• Dominican peso
• East Timor centavo coins
• Ecuadorian centavo coins
• Guatemalan quetzal
• Honduran lempira
• Mexican peso
• Mozambican metical
• Nicaraguan córdoba
• Philippine peso (In English usage, although sentimo (céntimo) is used in Filipino. The peso (originally established as the nuevo peso argentino or peso convertible) is the currency of Argentina. The boliviano ( ISO 4217 code BOB) is the Currency of Bolivia. The real (meaning "royal" ɹeˈal in English, [xe{{IPA|ˈ}}aw] in Brazilian Portuguese) ( sign: R$; code: The escudo is the Currency of Cape Verde (Portuguese Cabo Verde a former Portuguese colony The peso is the Currency of Chile. The current peso has circulated since 1975 with a previous version circulating between 1817 and 1960 only the letters that would be capitalized in that language in the middle of a sentence The peso oro is the currency of the Dominican Republic. Its symbol is " $ " with "RD$" used when distinction from other Pesos East Timor centavo coins were introduced in East Timor in 2003 for use alongside US Dollar Banknotes and Coins which had been introduced Ecuadorian centavo coins were introduced in 2000 when Ecuador converted its currency from the sucre to the U The quetzal ( ISO 4217 code GTQ is the Currency of Guatemala. The lempira (lɛmˈpɪrə ISO 4217 code HNL is the currency of Honduras. The peso ( sign: $; code: MXN) is the currency of Mexico. The symbol used for the peso is " $ " basically The metical (plural meticais) is the Currency of Mozambique, abbreviated with the symbol MZN or MTn. The córdoba ( ISO 4217 code NIO is the Currency of Nicaragua. The peso ( Filipino: piso) ( sign: ₱; code: PHP) is the currency of the Philippines. The céntimo or was a Currency unit of Spain and other countries which were historically influenced by Spain or Portugal (written as cêntimo) )

Obsolete

• Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. Colón was also the name of El Salvador 's currency until 2001 As céntimo for other periods. The céntimo or was a Currency unit of Spain and other countries which were historically influenced by Spain or Portugal (written as cêntimo) )
• Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulates after sucre was replaced by U.S. dollar in 2000. The sucre was the Currency of Ecuador between 1884 and 2000 Its ISO code was ECS and it was subdivided into 10 decimos or 100 The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been )
• Salvadoran colón
• Guinea Bissau peso
• Mozambican escudo
• Portuguese escudo (Before the euro was introduced)
• Portuguese Guinean escudo
• Portuguese Indian escudo
• São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
• Venezuelan venezolano
• Venezuelan peso

Colón is also the name of Costa Rica 's currency For this see Costa Rican colón. The peso was the currency of Guinea-Bissau from 1975 to 1997 and was divided into 100 centavos The escudo was the currency of Mozambique from 1914 until 1980 The escudo was the Currency of Portugal prior to the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 1999 and was removed from circulation on Please update other articles as well to avoid contradiction within Wikipedia e The escudo was the currency of Portuguese Guinea between 1914 and 1975 The escudo was the currency of Portuguese India between 1958 and 1961 The escudo was the currency of São Tomé and Príncipe between 1914 and 1977 The venezolano was the currency of Venezuela between 1872 and 1879. The peso was a currency of Venezuela until 1874. History Until 1821 the Spanish colonial real circulated in Venezuela

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