per centum

English

Etymology

Latin per + centum

Noun

per centum

1. (archaic) Percent.
   • 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:

     On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...

   • 1887, Henry Beatty, A New Method of Computing Interest from Four Per Centum to Twelve Per Centum‎^[1]:
   • 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787:

     Firearms, twenty-five per centum

   • 1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 17:

     More than sixty per centum of the population of Australia is settled in the States along whose littoral the Lyrebird ranges[.]

References

• “per centum”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.