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by ClashTheBunny 3657 days ago
> The word has evolved within Romance languages (and Swedish) to mean "century".

Doesn't that come from centum (100) like cent and centurion?
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saint_fiasco 3657 days ago
That's for Germanic languages. In Romance languages the words for century look like "seculo", "siglo", &c.
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carlob 3657 days ago
What they meant is that in Romance languages century is a cognate of secular: secolo in Italian, siècle in French, siglo in Spanish…
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capote 3657 days ago
And secol in Romanian ^_^
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