Secular (Re: [lbo-talk] housing bubble?)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 30 10:25:53 PST 2005


snit snat wrote:


>Does anyone know _why_, etymologically-speaking, someone thought it
>made sense to use the word secular?

<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=secular>

[Middle English, from Old French seculer, from Late Latin saeculris, from Latin, of an age, from saeculum, generation, age.]



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