{{Short description|Fractional monetary unit, 1/100}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2023}} {{Wiktionary}} The '''centavo''' (Spanish and Portuguese 'one hundredth') is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world.<ref name="dict">{{cite book |editor1-last=Law |editor1-first=Jonathan |title=A Dictionary of Finance and Banking |date=March 2014 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780199664931 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ho2BQAAQBAJ |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref> The term comes from Latin ''centum'' ({{lit|one hundred}}), with the added suffix ''-avo'' ('portion').
Coins of various denominations of centavos have been made from copper, stainless steel, aluminum-bronze, and silver.<ref name="akinbard">{{cite book |last1=Akin |first1=Marjorie H. |last2=Akin |first2=Kevin |last3=Bard |first3=James C. |title=Numismatic Archaeology of North America |date=5 May 2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781315521329 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MseDAAAQBAJ |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
==Circulating== Places that currently use the centavo include: *Argentine peso *Bolivian boliviano *Brazilian real *Cape Verdean escudo *Colombian peso *Cuban peso *Dominican peso *East Timorese centavo coins *Ecuadorian centavo coins *Guatemalan quetzal *Honduran lempira *Macanese avos *Mexican peso *Mozambican metical *Nicaraguan córdoba *Philippine peso (''In English usage; ''sentimo'' or ''céntimo'' is used in Tagalog and Spanish respectively.'')
<gallery mode="packed" heights="150px"> File:50 Centavos (Philippines).jpg|50 Philippine centavos (1964) of the ''English series''. File:10 Philippine centavos (2).jpg|10 Philippine centavos (1945), from the Commonwealth period. File:1-centavo-real-2003.png|1 Brazilian centavo (2003), no longer produced. File:2002phil01centobv.jpg|1 sentimo coin (2002), from the BSP series </gallery>
==Obsolete== Former forms of the centavo that are no longer in use include: {{Incomplete list|date=August 2008}} *Brazilian cruzeiro (from 1942 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1993) *Brazilian cruzado (from 1986 to 1989) *Brazilian cruzado novo (from 1989 to 1990) *Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As céntimo for other periods.) *Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulate after the sucre was replaced by U.S. dollar in 2000.) *Salvadoran colón *Guinea Bissau peso *Mozambican escudo *Portuguese escudo (before the euro was introduced) *Portuguese Guinean escudo *Portuguese Indian escudo *Puerto Rican peso *São Tomé and Príncipe escudo *Venezuelan venezolano *Venezuelan peso *Chilean Cent (from 1975 to 1983, as a subdivision of the Chilean peso; out of circulation due to inflation<ref name="chile">{{cite web |title=Chilean Peso |url=https://www.exchangerate.com/currency-information/the_currency_exchange_rate_used_for_chile_is_the_chilean_peso.html |website=eXchangeRate.com |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>)
==See also== {{Portal|Money|Numismatics}} *Cent (currency) *Coin *Céntimo
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