sech
See also: Sech and sec'h
Translingual
Symbol
sech
- (mathematics) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic secant.
Usage notes
The symbol sech is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.
See also
- csch
- coth
- arcsech
English
Determiner
sech
- (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of such.
Anagrams
- Ches., Esch, hESC
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zeχ/, [zəɕ]
Pronoun
sech
- third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
- third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
- third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
- third-person plural, reflexive: themselves
Declension
Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) | du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) | Dir | Der | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | ||
3rd person singular | m | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
f | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | ||
n | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | ||
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | ||
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | ||
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sekʷo- (“besides, without”) (compare Welsh heb (“without”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”) or *sek- (“to cut”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲex/
Preposition
sech (with accusative)
- past, beyond
- different from
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d7
- Ná eiplet húan bás coitchen húa n‑epil cách, acht foircniter húa sain-bás sech cách.
- Let them not die by the common death by which everyone dies, but let them be ended by a special death different from everyone.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d7
Inflection
Inflection of sech
Person | Normal | Emphatic |
---|---|---|
1st person sing. | sechum | |
2d person sing. | sechut | |
3d sing. masc./neut., dative | ||
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative | sech(a)e, sechæ | |
3d sing. fem., dative | ||
3d sing. fem., accusative | secce | |
1st person pl. | sechund | |
2d person pl. | ||
3d person pl., dative | ||
3d person pl., accusative | seccu |
Forms combined with the definite article:
- sechin (“different from the m sg or f sg”)
- secha (“different from the n sg”)
- sechna (“different from the pl”)
Forms combined with a possessive determiner:
- sechmo (“different from my”)
Forms combined with the relative pronoun:
- secha
Descendants
- Irish: seach
- Manx: shagh
- Scottish Gaelic: seach
Conjunction
sech
- yet, although
Derived terms
- sech is
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 328
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 434, 853, pages 273, 530
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) sitg, setg
- (Sursilvan) schetg, sec
- (Sutsilvan) sétg
Etymology
From Latin siccus.
Adjective
sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)
- (Puter, Vallader) dry
Welsh
Adjective
sech (not mutable)
- feminine singular of sych
Verb
sech (not mutable)
- Contraction of basech.