saeculum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Or, from *sh₂ey- (“to bind, knit, tie together, tie to, connect”) + *-tlom (instrumental suffix) (whence Latin -culum), in the sense of successive generations being linked together over time. Confer Lithuanian sėkla and Gaulish Sētlocenia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsae̯.ku.lum/, [ˈs̠äe̯kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ku.lum/, [ˈsɛːkulum]
Noun
saeculum n (genitive saeculī); second declension
- race, breed
- generation, lifetime
- the amount of time between an occurrence and the death of the final person who was alive at, or witness to, that occurrence
- age, time
- century
- worldliness; the world
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | saeculum | saecula |
Genitive | saeculī | saeculōrum |
Dative | saeculō | saeculīs |
Accusative | saeculum | saecula |
Ablative | saeculō | saeculīs |
Vocative | saeculum | saecula |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: saol
- Italian: secolo
- Maltese: seklu
- Norman: siaeclle (Guernsey), siécl'ye (Jersey), syekly (Sark), syiclle (continental Normandy)
References
- “saeculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saeculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saeculum 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)
- saeculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
- universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
- the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
- “saeculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “saeculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN