siècle
See also: siecle
French
Alternative forms
- siecle (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French siecle, from Old French siecle, borrowed as a semi-learned term from Latin saeculum (the expected inherited form would be *sieil).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sjɛkl/
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Noun
siècle m (plural siècles)
- century (period of 100 years)
- 1992, Nothomb, Amélie, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):
- 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.
- XXIe siècle
- 21st century
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Derived terms
- du siècle
- mal du siècle
- siècle des Lumières
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: syèk
References
- Etymology and history of “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “siècle” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
- “siècle” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
Anagrams
- ciselé, cisèle