plurisecular

English

Etymology

From pluri- (“multi-, many”) +‎ secular (“of or related to centuries”), chiefly after French pluriséculaire.

Adjective

plurisecular (comparative more plurisecular, superlative most plurisecular)

1. (rare, academic) Of or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old.
   • 1903 March 26, anonymous author, Nature, volume 67, number 1743, page 495:

     M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries.

   • 1978, Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, The History of Sexuality, volume I, page 22:

     Rather than seeing in [the anonymous author of My Secret Life] a courageous fugitive from a "Victorianism" that would have compelled him to silence, I am inclined to think that, in an epoch dominated by (highly prolix) directives enjoining discretion and modesty, he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.

   • 2013, Vincenzo Cicchelli, “The Cosmopolitan 'Bildung' of Erasmus Students' Going Abroad”, in Critical Perspectives on International Education, page 205:

     ...it is convenient to take into consideration, on one hand, registration in a program within a plurisecular story of academic mobilities and of the literary imagination linked to the juvenile journey and, on the other hand, the contribution of ERASMUS journeys to a socialisation centered on the meeting of individuals from different European countries.

Synonyms

• secular, multisecular

Romanian

Etymology

From pluri- +‎ secular.

Adjective

plurisecular m or n (feminine singular pluriseculară, masculine plural pluriseculari, feminine and neuter plural pluriseculare)

1. plurisecular

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	plurisecular		pluriseculară		pluriseculari	pluriseculare
	definite	plurisecularul		pluriseculara		plurisecularii	plurisecularele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	plurisecular		pluriseculare		pluriseculari	pluriseculare
	definite	plurisecularului		plurisecularei		plurisecularilor	plurisecularelor

Spanish

Adjective

plurisecular m or f (masculine and feminine plural pluriseculares)

1. many-centuries