English → Latin
“secular” in Latin
saeculārisof or pertaining to a saeculum (generation; century); worldly, temporal, profaneprofānussecular, unconsecrated, profane; impious, wicked; ignorant, unlearnedcīvīliscivic, civil (of or pertaining to citizens); public, political (of or pertaining to public or political life); courteousflū̆xusa flowing, flow, flux; emission (of semen)cadūcusThat falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.; That easily falls, inclined to fall; Devoted to deavānusvain, empty, vacant, void; unsubstantial; groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindless
The English word secular itself goes back to Latin saeculum, through saeculāris.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
secular
Of an age, saecularis.
Not spiritual, *a rebus divinis alienus (☞ not mundanus): profanus: civilis. A secular office, munus civile.
Temporal, evanescent, fluxus: caducus: vanus.
Devoted to worldly pleasures, vanus: rerum inanium amans: voluptatibus deditus
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for secular?
- The usual Latin words for “secular” are saeculāris, profānus, cīvīlis; also flū̆xus, cadūcus, vānus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.