“Centi” is just Latin for hundred, as in centigrade or centipede, or centurion and century. It’s a convention of the SI system that Latin prefixes are the frac

“Centi” is just Latin for hundred, as in centigrade or centipede, or centurion and century. It’s a convention of the SI system that Latin prefixes are the fractional units, but that’s not a feature of the Latin words themselves.