Editing Centime (section)

==Subdivision of euro: cent or centime?==
In the European community, ''cent'' is the official name for one hundredth of a [[euro]]. However, in French-speaking countries, the word ''centime ''is the preferred term. The [[Conseil supérieur de la langue française (Belgium)|Superior Council of the French language]] of Belgium recommended in 2001 the use of ''centime'', since ''cent'' is also the French word for "hundred". An analogous decision was published in the ''[[Journal officiel]]'' in France (2 December 1997).

In Morocco, [[dirham]]s are divided into 100 ''centime''s and one may find prices in the country quoted in ''centime''s rather than in dirhams. Sometimes ''centime''s are known as francs or, in [[Spanish Morocco|former Spanish areas]], [[Spanish peseta|pesetas]].