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saeculum.

age; generation, people born at a time; breed, race; present time/age; century; worldliness; the_world; heathenism; time; past/present/future (Plater); [in ~ => forever];

8 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsae̯.kʊ.ɫũː]Classical-Latin[ˈsɛː.ku.lum]
  1. race, breed

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  2. generation, lifetime

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  3. the amount of time between an occurrence and the death of the final person who was alive at, or witness to, that occurrence

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  4. age, time, the times, an era

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  5. century

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  6. worldliness; the world

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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Proto-Indo-European *sh₂éytlom Proto-Italic *saitlom ~ *saiklom Latin saeculum From Proto-Italic *saiklom < *saitlom, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂éytlom (“lifetime, lifespan”), 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. Compare Lithuanian sėkla (“seed”), Proto-Celtic *saitlom (“life, age”), Gaulish Sētlocenia, Hittite [script needed] (išhi-, “to bind”), Sanskrit सि (si, “to bind”). An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”).

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