seca
See also: secá, séca, secà, seča, and šéca
Asturian
Noun
seca f (plural seques)
- drought
Synonyms
- secura
Catalan
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
seca
- feminine singular of sec
Noun
seca f (plural seques)
- sandbar, shoal, reef
- Synonyms: escull, secany
Etymology 2
From Arabic سِكَّة (sikka).
Noun
seca f (plural seques)
- mint (building or workshop where money is produced)
Corsican
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛka/
- Hyphenation: se‧ca
Noun
seca f (plural seche)
- Alternative form of sega
References
- “sega, seca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsekɐ]
Etymology 1
From Latin siccus (“dry”).
Noun
seca f (plural secas)
- drought
- low tide
- Synonym: baixamar
Adjective
seca
- feminine singular of seco
Verb
seca
- third-person singular present indicative of secar
- second-person singular imperative of secar
References
- “seca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “seca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “seca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “seca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ka/
- Rhymes: -ɛka
- Hyphenation: sè‧ca
Verb
seca
- inflection of secare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- asce, case, esca
Latin
Verb
secā
- second-person singular present active imperative of secō
References
- seca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Neapolitan
Noun
seca f
- saw
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Adjective
seca
- feminine singular of sec
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Deverbal from secar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧ca
Noun
seca f (plural secas)
- act of drying
- Synonym: secagem
- (meteorology) drought (period of unusually low rainfall)
- (colloquial, figurative) nuisance; bore
- Que seca! ― What a drag!
- Synonym: chatice
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧ca
Verb
seca
- inflection of secar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -ekɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧ca
Adjective
seca
- feminine singular of seco
Romanian
Etymology 1
From Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō.
Verb
a seca (third-person singular present seacă, past participle secat) 1st conj.
- to strip (to completely take away, to plunder)
- to drain, exhaust, empty
- to dry up
Conjugation
conjugation of seca (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a seca | ||||||
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gerund | secând | ||||||
past participle | secat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | sec | seci | seacă | secăm | secați | seacă | |
imperfect | secam | secai | seca | secam | secați | secau | |
simple perfect | secai | secași | secă | secarăm | secarăți | secară | |
pluperfect | secasem | secaseși | secase | secaserăm | secaserăți | secaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să sec | să seci | să sece | să secăm | să secați | să sece | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | seacă | secați | |||||
negative | nu seca | nu secați |
Derived terms
- secare
Related terms
- sec
- secăciune
- secetă
See also
- usca
Etymology 2
From Latin secāre, present active infinitive of secō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Verb
a seca (third-person singular present seacă, past participle secat) 1st conj.
- (rare) to cut; to reap, harvest
Synonyms
- tăia, secera
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian seka.
Noun
seca f (uncountable)
- (regional, usually before a woman's name) lady, madam
- Synonyms: (popular) lele, mătușă, nană, tanti
- (regional) sister-in-law
- Synonym: cumnată
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseka/ [ˈse.ka]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -eka
- Syllabification: se‧ca
- Homophone: ceca
Adjective
seca
- feminine singular of seco
Verb
seca
- inflection of secar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative