saeculum
- noun
- /ˈseɪkjələm/
- Archaic
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saeculum
- A saeculum in Roman times could be understood as spanning roughly a century of history.
Examples
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Yet more crucial for Augustan policy was Virgil's description of the aureum saeculum in the Aeneid.
Academic text (1990) -
The Augustan Age (saeculum) seemed to inaugurate a pax aeterna.
Academic text (1990) -
His thought on the saeculum, that morally ambivalent, tentative arena of time and space,
Academic text (1990) -
Transformative change, chaos, desperate measures, and total war will propel our nation through this cataclysmic saeculum, and a positive outcome is not assured.
Blog text (5) -
The difficulty was that both roads traversed the same complex Roman world (the saeculum), which, though thoroughly secular, as the designation saeculum suggests, belied what secular means today.
Academic text (2008) -
As the saeculum turns, each of today's generations will enter a new phase of life, producing a Crisis constellation of Boomer elders, midlife 13ers, young adult Millennials, and children from the new Silent Generation.
Blog text (5) -
The concept of a saeculum illustrates the cyclical nature of generations in ancient Rome.
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Historians often study the impact of events over a saeculum to understand societal changes.
Synonyms
A long period of time in church writing that means many centuries
Surface Forms
Etymology
Saeculum comes from the Latin saeculum, which meant 'generation' or 'age', so it names a block of time like a century or era that historians use to divide the past.
