secle
nounEtymology
From Latin saeculum. Compare French siècle. See secular. Doublet of saeculum.
- derived from saeculum
Definitions
A century.
- Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's life-time, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years in the genealogies.
The length of an epoch, believed to be the amount of time that elapsed from the start of…
The length of an epoch, believed to be the amount of time that elapsed from the start of one epoch to the time when no one who was alive at that point is still alive (starting at the founding of Rome).
- If on this principle we calculate back from this first secular epoch preserved in history, the beginning ot the second secle falls U.C. 78.
- So the haruspex Vulcatius announced that the comet which appeared shortly after the assassination of Julius Cæsar indicated the end of the ninth secle and the beginning of the tenth.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for secle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA