The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromsaeculum
- English todaysaeculum
Words from the same roots
Latinsaeculum all →
secle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
saeculum
Today it means: Any of a sequence of ages (periods of time) such that each age ends with the death of the last person remaining alive since its beginning, and the end of an age marks the beginning of the next. Full definition →
Latin saeculum