siècle – French noun declension

French noun forms of siècle

Noun: siècle
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular msiècle
Plural msiècles

Sample Sentences

  • le xxiᵉ siècle (the 21st century)
  • C'est que, rompant avec l'imitation des siècles précédents, ils retournent à l'éternelle inspiratrice, à la nature . . . (For, breaking with the imitation of previous centuries, they return to the eternal inspirer—to nature . . .) [1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 1:]
  • Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIᵉ siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler. (Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6ᵗʰ century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.) [1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French siecle, from Old French siecle, earlier secle (9th c.), a borrowing from Latin saeculum. The expected inherited form would be *sieil. See: Latin Nouns 'saeculum'.

Verbs referencing "siècle"

Swedish Nouns sekel, English Nouns secle.

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