siecle
See also: siècle
French
editNoun
editsiecle m (plural siecles)
Further reading
edit- “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editMiddle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French siecle.
Noun
editsiecle m (plural siecles)
- century (period of 100 years)
Descendants
editOld French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editSemi-learned borrowing from Latin saeculum (the expected inherited form would be *sieil).
Noun
editsiecle oblique singular, m (oblique plural siecles, nominative singular siecles, nominative plural siecle)
- generation, lifetime
- age, time
- century (period of 100 years)
- mid-late 11th century, anonymous author, Vie de saint Alexis [Life of saint Alexius], stanza 1; republished as Gaston Paris, editor, La vie de saint Alexis (Recueil de travaux originaux ou traduits; 5)[1], Paris, 1872, page 139:
- Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor,
Quer feit i ert e justise et amor,
Si ert credance, dont or n’i at nul prot- Good were the centuries in the ancient time, for both justice and love were accomplished, thus there was faith, which is now no advantage
- worldliness; the world
Descendants
edit- Middle French: siecle
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (siecle)
- secle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Etymology and history of “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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