centi-. prefix. 1. denoting one hundredthSymbol: c: centimetre. 2. denoting a hundred: centipede.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Effigy. An effigy is a representation of a specific person, especially in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy in stone or metal placed on a tomb.
An effigy mound is a rather different term, used in the archaeology of (mainly) Pre-Columbian America for a large earthwork with a figurative design that is not obvious at ground level. 1  Effigy of Elizabeth II by Mary Gillick, used on coins of the UK and several other Commonwealth nations from 1953 until the late 1960s.