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French
Noun
siecle m (plural siecles)
- Obsolete form of siècle.
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Middle French
Etymology
From Old French siecle.
Noun
siecle m (plural siecles)
- century (period of 100 years)
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Old French
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin saeculum (the expected inherited form would be *sieil).
Noun
siecle oblique singular, m (oblique plural siecles, nominative singular siecles, nominative plural siecle)
- generation, lifetime
- age, time
- century (period of 100 years)
mid-late 11th century, anonymous author, Vie de saint Alexis [Life of saint Alexius], stanza 1; republished as Gaston Paris, editor, La vie de saint Alexis (Recueil de travaux originaux ou traduits; 5), Paris, 1872, page 139:Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor,
Quer feit i ert e justise et amor,
Si ert credance, dont or n’i at nul prot- Good were the centuries in the ancient time, for both justice and love were accomplished, thus there was faith, which is now no advantage
- worldliness; the world
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