Where does “séculier” come from?
séculier (French) comes from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.
séculier (French): secular
Definitions
- secular
Ancestry of “séculier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | seculer | secular; worldly; mundane, non-celestial |
| 2 | Latin | saeculāris | of or pertaining to a saeculum generation; century |
| 3 | Latin | -āris | first conjugation |
| 4 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |