Secle

Quick meaning: Secle is a noun meaning (Ancient Rome) The length of an epoch, believed to be the amount of time that elapsed from the start of one epoch to the time when no one who was alive at that point is still alive (starting at the founding of Rome).

Meaning

(Ancient Rome) The length of an epoch, believed to be the amount of time that elapsed from the start of one epoch to the time when no one who was alive at that point is still alive (starting at the founding of Rome).

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A century.

Example Sentences

If on this principle we calculate back from this first secular epoch preserved in history, the beginning ot the second secle falls U.C. 78.

So the haruspex Vulcatius announced that the comet which appeared shortly after the assassination of Julius Cæsar indicated the end of the ninth secle and the beginning of the tenth.

Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's life-time, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years in the genealogies.

Word Forms

• secles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centenary, centennium, yearhundred, centry, cent, centuryful.

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