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/sjɛkl/
Translation
century
Word origin
From Latin saeculum ('generation, age, century'), which in Church Latin also meant the worldly age as opposed to the religious life. English 'secular' comes from the same noun.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- saeculum
- English cognates
- secular
Grammar
Examples
Cette cathédrale treizième .
This cathedral dates from the thirteenth century.
vingtième .
The twentieth century changed everything.
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I have not seen you for ages!
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In the last century, nobody had a telephone.
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She studies the painting of the Enlightenment.
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