Séculos
Example: Os castelos antigos têm séculos de história.
Definition
"Séculos" refers to periods of one hundred years each. It is used to describe long spans of time, often emphasizing the age or duration of events, objects, or history, such as in the phrase 'The ancient castles have centuries of history.'
Translations
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century -
siglo -
eeuw -
segle -
siècle -
Jahrhundert -
secolo
Etymology
The word "séculos" comes from the Latin word 'saeculum,' which means 'age' or 'generation.' Interestingly, 'saeculum' originally referred to the length of a human life, roughly a century, which evolved into the modern sense of a hundred-year period.
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