siecle

siecle m (plural siecles)

1. Obsolete form of siècle.

• “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ciselé, cisèle

From Old French siecle.

siecle m (plural siecles)

1. century (period of 100 years)

• French: siècle, siecle
  • Haitian Creole: syèk
• Norman: siaeclle (Guernsey), siècl'ye (Jersey)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin saeculum (the expected inherited form would be *sieil).

siecle oblique singular, m (oblique plural siecles, nominative singular siecles, nominative plural siecle)

1. generation, lifetime
2. age, time
3. century (period of 100 years)
4. worldliness; the world

• Middle French: siecle
  • French: siècle, siecle
    • Haitian Creole: syèk
  • Norman: siaeclle (Guernsey), siècl'ye (Jersey)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (siecle)
• secle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Etymology and history of “siècle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.