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saecularis

saecularis · adj

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Where it lives

Ad Uxorem 4 · 9.63/10k
De Testimionio Animae 2 · 8.95/10k
De Corona 4 · 8.22/10k
De Patientia 3 · 6.63/10k
De Spectaculis 4 · 6.29/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 3 · 5.86/10k
De idolatria 4 · 5.8/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
Gordiani Tres 2 · 3.6/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

saecŭlāris — Lewis & Short

saecŭlāris (sēcŭ-), e, adj.saeculum,

I of or belonging to a saeculum: ludi, secular games, celebrated at very long intervals (the interval was fixed, in the time of Augustus, at one hundred and twenty years), and continuing three days and nights, Varr. and Liv. ap. Censor. de Die Nat. 17; Suet. Aug. 31; id. Dom. 4; id. Vit. 2; Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 159; Tac. A. 11, 11: carmen, a hymn sung at the secular games, a secular hymn; the best known hymn of this character is that composed by Horace, at the command of Augustus, to be sung at the secular games, A. U. C. 737; cf. Suet. Vit. Hor.—Hence, substt.

A saecŭlāres, ium, m. (sc. ludi), the secular games, Suet. Claud. 21.—

B saecŭlārĭa, ium, n. (sc. sacra), the secular games, Val. Max. 2, 4, 4 al.—

II Worldly, temporal, profane, lay, secular; pagan, heathen (eccl. Lat.): homines (opp. monachi), Hier. Ep. 60, 11: historia, Sedul. in Conc. post Ep. 7, 9: exempla, Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 13 (al. saeculi): feminae quaedam (Dido, Lucretia), id. ib. 13 fin.—As subst.: saecŭlārĭa, ium, n., worldly matters: redditur in culpā pastor saecularia servans, Commod. 94, 69.— Hence, adv.: saecŭlārĭter, in a worldly manner (eccl. Lat.): mulierem saeculariter ornari, Cypr. Testim. 3, 36.

In the wild

saecularibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.48.p2
saecularium Tertullian, De Corona 10
Saeculares Suetonius, Divus Augustus 31.4
saeculares Tertullian, De Corona 7
saecularium Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.7
saecularis Tertullian, De Spectaculis 17.1

6 of 80 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.