Etymology of the English word secularize
the English word secularize
derived from the English word secular
derived from the Old French word seculer
derived from the Latin word saecularis (of, belonging to saeculum, century; secular, of world not church; ecclesiastics not member of order)
derived from the Latin word saeculum (age; generation, people born at a time; time; past, present; worldliness; the_world; heathenism)