saeculum
Pronunciation: [ˈsae̯.kʊ.ɫũː]
“saeculum” is a Latin word. Its 6 meanings in English:
noun
- 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, the times, an era
- century
- worldliness; the world
Etymology
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…
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