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saeculum

Meaning

(declension-2, neuter) race, breed
(declension-2, neuter) generation, lifetime
(declension-2, neuter) the amount of time between an occurrence and the death of the final person who was alive at, or witness to, that occurrence
(declension-2, neuter) age, time, the times, an era
(declension-2, neuter) century
(declension-2, neuter) worldliness; the world

γενεά

αιώνας

eeuw

γενιά

Jahrhundert

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Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsae̯.kʊ.ɫũː]

From Proto-Italic *saiklom < *saitlom, probably from *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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saeculum

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