Centuria, centuriæ. A company conteining an hundred men.In agris significat ducenta iugera: in re militari centum homines. Festus. Modica centuria. Varro. Auspicia centuriarum augusta.Cic.Vox vna centuriarum.Cic.Equitum centuriæ.Cic.Seniorum & iuniorum centurijs honore affici.Cic.Paucæ centuriæ.Cic.Ferre centuriam, est habere centuriam aliquam sibi suffragantem in cuiuspiam magistratus petitione.Cic.Ornare aliquem centurijs.Cicer.To appoint vnto him certaine bands of men, for the gard of his person.Renuntiatus Prætor centurijs cunctis.Cic.By the voyce of all the hundreds.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
centŭrĭa, ae, f. [centum], orig., an assemblage or a division consisting of a hundred things of a kind; hence in gen., any division, even if it consists not of a hundred. I. In agricult., a number of acres of ground, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 10, 35; cf. id. R. R. 1, 10 fin.; 18, 5; Col. 5, 1, 7; Hyg. Lim. p. 154 Goes.—II. In milit. lang., a division of troops, a century, company: centuriae, quae sub uno centurione sunt, quorum centenarius justus numerus, Varr. L. L. 5. 16, 26, 88, p. 26 Bip.: centuriae tres equitum, Ramnenses, Titienses, Luceres, Liv. 1, 13, 8: in legione sunt centuriae sexaginta, manipuli triginta, cohortes decem, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 6; cf. Veg. Mil. 2, 13 sq.; Caes. B. C. 1, 64; 3, 91; Sall. J. 91, 1.— III. Of the Roman people, one of the one hundred and ninety-three orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people according to their property, a century, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39 sq. Moser; Liv. 1, 43, 1 sq.; cf. Dion. Halic. 4, 16 sq.; Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, p. 477 sq.—Hence the assemblies in which they voted acc. to centuries were called comitia centuriata; v. 1. centurio. The century designated by lot as voting first was called centuria praerogativa, Cic. Planc. 20, 49; v. praerogativus; cf. Dict. of Antiq.