Etymology

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Today it means: Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical. Full definition →

Middle English seculer ← Old French seculer ← Latin saeculāris
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  1. Latin · derived fromsaeculāris“of the age”
  2. Old French · derived fromseculer
  3. Middle English · inherited fromseculer
  4. English todaysecular

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.