Centigrade is the older name for the temperature scale with a hundred steps between freezing and boiling. Thirty degrees centigrade.
The name was dropped in 1948 for Celsius, because a centigrade was already an angle in French. Centigrade is still what a great many people say, and everybody understands it.
1adjectivecentigradeThe older name for the temperature scale with a hundred steps between the freezing and the boiling of water.
“The oven was set to two hundred centigrade.”
centigrade is a scale.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰradʰ-
Proto-Italic
*graðus
Latin
gradus — a step, pace, degree
Middle French
grade — a grade, degree
English
grade
English, today
centigrade
Built from
From centi- + grade. grade Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic graðus, from Proto-Indo-European gʰradʰ-, gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). a doublet of gradus. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (“step, grade”), bar Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA