Noun: saeculum
| Singular | saeculum |
| Plural | saeculums; saecula |
Sample Sentences
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According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization; the Etruscans, for example, had been given ten saecula.
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At the time of the reign of emperor Augustus, the Romans decided that a saeculum was 110 years.
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Because new ages are retrodictive as well as prospective, Augustus had his hierarchs discover (post hoc) that his were the fifth Secular Games since the founding of Rome, and that a saeculum was historically a period of 110 years. [1996, Hillel Schwartz, Century's End, Currency Doubleday, page 16:]
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Despite skepticism regarding the degree of forecasting, the authors' presentation of historical events is comprehensive and arguments for their organization into a cyclical method of four era saeculums convincing. [1997, The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, Volume 19, University of Kansas, page 203:]
Nouns inflected like saeculum
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin saeculum. Doublet of secle.