saeculum
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noun (English)
1. (historical, Roman) A cyclical period of time, roughly equal to the time needed for the complete renewal of a human population:Examples: "Because new ages are retrodictive as well as prospective, Augustus had his hierarchs discover (post hoc) that his were the fifth Secular Games since the founding of Rome, and that a saeculum was historically a period of 110 years."Romanhistorical
2. (historical, Roman) A cyclical period of time, roughly equal to the time needed for the complete renewal of a human population:Examples: "According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization; the Etruscans, for example, had been given ten saecula."Romanhistorical
3. (historical, Roman) A cyclical period of time, roughly equal to the time needed for the complete renewal of a human population:Examples: "At the time of the reign of emperor Augustus, the Romans decided that a saeculum was 110 years."Romanhistorical
Definition source: Wiktionary