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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by ClashTheBunny on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:07PM (#11894977)
> The word has evolved within Romance languages (and Swedish) to mean "century".

Doesn't that come from centum (100) like cent and centurion?

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by saint_fiasco on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:33PM (#11895196)
That's for Germanic languages. In Romance languages the words for century look like "seculo", "siglo", &c.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by carlob on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:34PM (#11895204)
What they meant is that in Romance languages century is a cognate of secular: secolo in Italian, siècle in French, siglo in Spanish…
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by capote on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:06PM (#11895432)
And secol in Romanian ^_^
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