[opiuse]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum

A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or the equivalent of the complete renewal of a human population. The word has evolved within Romance languages (and Swedish) to mean "century".

[ClashTheBunny]

> The word has evolved within Romance languages (and Swedish) to mean "century".

Doesn't that come from centum (100) like cent and centurion?

[saint_fiasco]

That's for Germanic languages. In Romance languages the words for century look like "seculo", "siglo", &c.

[carlob]

What they meant is that in Romance languages century is a cognate of secular: secolo in Italian, siècle in French, siglo in Spanish…

[capote]

And secol in Romanian ^_^