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)
   • mid-late 11^th century, anonymous author, Vie de saint Alexis [Life of saint Alexius], stanza 1; republished as Gaston Paris, editor, La vie de saint Alexis (Recueil de travaux originaux ou traduits; 5)‎, Paris, 1872, page 139:

     Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor,
     Quer feit i ert e justise et amor,
     Si ert credance, dont or n’i at nul prot

     Good were the centuries in the ancient time, for both justice and love were accomplished, thus there was faith, which is now no advantage

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.