Noun: saeculum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | saeculum |
| Plural | saecula |
Genitive
| Singular | saeculī |
| Plural | saeculōrum |
Dative
| Singular | saeculō |
| Plural | saeculīs |
Accusative
| Singular | saeculum |
| Plural | saecula |
Ablative
| Singular | saeculō |
| Plural | saeculīs |
Vocative
| Singular | saeculum |
| Plural | saecula |
Sample Sentences
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rīsit et ‘ō quam tē fallunt tua saecula,’ dīxit (He smiled, and said: ‘‘Oh, how wrong you are about your era,
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if you think honey is sweeter than taking up money!’’) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.191–192]
Nouns inflected like saeculum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *seh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
4. Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
6. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
8. Proto-Indo-European *sh₂éytlom
9. Proto-Italic *saitlom ~ *saiklom
10. Latin saeculum
11. 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”).
12. An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). See: Latin Nouns '
-culum'.
Verbs referencing "saeculum"
Spanish Nouns
siglo, French Nouns
siècle, Italian Nouns
secolo, Romanian Nouns
secol, Irish Nouns
saol, Catalan Nouns
segle, English Nouns
secle.
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