quintal
a weight of a hundred pounds (about 46 kg); the metric quintal is 100 kgpeso de cien libras (unos 46 kg); el quintal métrico pesa 100 kg
Comes from Arabic
قِنْطَار
qinṭār
“a measure of weight of a hundred pounds”«medida de peso de cien libras»
Arabic today says
قِنْطَار
qinṭār
And it still does
The article
It came in without the article.
Arabic itself had taken it from Latin.
The story
Arabic took it from Latin centenarium, "of a hundred", through Greek and Aramaic: Spanish got a Latin word back by way of Arabic, a doublet of centenario.El árabe la tomó del latín centenarium, «de cien», a través del griego y el arameo: el español recuperó por vía árabe una palabra latina, doblete de centenario.
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