secle

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English

Etymology

From Latin saeculum. Compare French siècle. See secular.

Noun

secle (plural secles)

  1. (obsolete) A century.
    • 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “secle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin saeculum.

Noun

secle oblique singular, ? (oblique plural secles, nominative singular secle, nominative plural secles)

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