secula

English

Noun

secula

1. plural of seculum

Anagrams

• Caelus, Clause, clause

Latin

Etymology 1

From secō (“to cut, cleave”) +‎ -ula. Formation like tēgula and rēgula.

Noun

sēcula f (genitive sēculae); first declension

1. a sickle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēcula	sēculae
Genitive	sēculae	sēculārum
Dative	sēculae	sēculīs
Accusative	sēculam	sēculās
Ablative	sēculā	sēculīs
Vocative	sēcula	sēculae

Synonyms

• sicilis

Descendants

• Friulian: sesule
• → Proto-West Germanic: *sikilu (see there for further descendants)

References

• “secula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• secula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• secula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “secō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 551

Etymology 2

From saeclum.

Noun

sēcula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sēculum