n. 一百；许多
adj. 一百的；许多的
num. 百；百个
hundred 一百
来自PIE*dkm-tom,一百，*dkm,十，词源同ten,December,缩写自*de-kmt,两手，*de,二，词源同two,*kmt,手，*tom,膨胀，鼓起，词源同tumid,thousand.字面意思即鼓起来的十，好几十，后由概词过渡到量词百，词源同century,hectare.比较thousand,其原义为几百，后由概词过渡到量词千。-red,名词后缀，词源同kindred,hatred.
In Old Norse hundrath meant 120, that is the long hundred of six score, and at a later date, when both the six-score hundred and the five-score hundred were in use, the old or long hundred was styled hundrath tolf-roett ... meaning "duodecimal hundred," and the new or short hundred was called hundrath ti-rætt, meaning "decimal hundred." "The Long Hundred and its use in England" was discussed by Mr W.H. Stevenson, in 1889, in the Archcæological Review (iv. 313-27), where he stated that amongst the Teutons, who longest preserved their native customs unimpaired by the influence of Latin Christianity, the hundred was generally the six-score hundred. The short hundred was introduced among the Northmen in the train of Christianity. ["Transactions" of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1907]Meaning "division of a county or shire with its own court" (still in some British place names and U.S. state of Delaware) was in Old English and probably represents 100 hides of land. The Hundred Years War (which ran intermittently from 1337 to 1453) was first so called in 1874. The original Hundred Days was the period between Napoleon's restoration and his final abdication in 1815.