percentage, percent, per centum, pct
(noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
percent (not comparable)
For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). [from 16th c.]
• A percentage is often denoted by the character %.
• The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.
percent (plural percent or percents)
A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
One part per hundred; one percent. [from 19th c.]
percent
Per hundred.
• Percent/per cent originated as a shortening of the Latin phrase per centum, “per hundred”, and historically the use of the word as a noun (as in “half a percent” or “percents”) was regarded as an error, though such use has now become so common that it is recognized by all other major dictionaries, and a few treat the word as being only a noun. Of those which recognize non-nounal uses, most label it an adverb and many also label it an adjective though it does not meet tests of adjectivity.
Source: Wiktionary
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
