saecularis

Latin

Alternative forms

• sēculāris

Etymology

From saeculum (“generation; century”) +‎ -āris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sae̯.kuˈlaː.ris/, [s̠äe̯kʊˈɫ̪äːrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.kuˈla.ris/, [sekuˈläːris]

Adjective

saeculāris (neuter saeculāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of or pertaining to a saeculum (generation; century)
2. worldly, temporal, profane

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	saeculāris	saeculāre		saeculārēs	saeculāria
genitive	saeculāris			saeculārium
dative	saeculārī			saeculāribus
accusative	saeculārem	saeculāre		saeculārēs saeculārīs	saeculāria
ablative	saeculārī			saeculāribus
vocative	saeculāris	saeculāre		saeculārēs	saeculāria

• Adverb: saeculāriter

Derived terms

• saeculārēs
• saeculāria

Descendants

• Catalan: secular
• Old French: seculer
  • French: séculaire, séculier
  • English: secular
• Galician: secular, segrar
• Italian: secolare
• Portuguese: secular
• Romanian: secular
• Spanish: secular

References

• “saecularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saecularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saecularis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• saecularis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.