seco
See also: SECO, séco, secó, and secò
Asturian
Verb
seco
- first-person singular present indicative of secar
Galician
Etymology 1
From Latin siccus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsekʊ]
Adjective
seco m (feminine singular seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas)
- dry (free from or lacking moisture)
- Synonym: enxoito
- Antonym: húmido
- harsh
- skinny
- (of a staple food) alone, unaccompanied
Related terms
- secador
- secar
- secura
- sequidade
Noun
seco m (plural secos)
- dry land
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
seco
- first-person singular present indicative of secar
Further reading
- “seco” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
References
- “seco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “seco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “seco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “seco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “seco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin sēcum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.ko/
- Rhymes: -eko
- Hyphenation: sé‧co
Preposition
seco
- (archaic, literary) with oneself; within oneself; among themselves
- (archaic, literary) with him; with her; with them
See also
- meco
- nosco
- teco
- vosco
Further reading
- seco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- -esco, Cose, OCSE, cose, esco
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sekajō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognates include Old Church Slavonic сѣщи (sěšti, “to cut, hack, chop off”) and Old English saga (English saw).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.koː/, [ˈs̠ɛkoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ko/, [ˈsɛːko]
Verb
secō (present infinitive secāre, perfect active secuī, supine sectum); first conjugation
- I cut, cut off.
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus 29:17:
- Ipsum autem arietem secabis in frustra: lotaque intestina ejus ac pedes, pones super concissas carnes, et super caput illius.
- And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
- Ipsum autem arietem secabis in frustra: lotaque intestina ejus ac pedes, pones super concissas carnes, et super caput illius.
- I cleave, divide.
- Synonyms: dīvidō, sēgregō, sēparō, sēcernō, dirimō, intersaepiō, distinguō, discrībō
- Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō
- (medicine) I operate, amputate, perform surgery.
- I castrate.
- (by extension) I wound, injure.
- Synonyms: feriō, vulnerō, noceō, īnfestō
- (figuratively) I hurt with my words.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of secō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | secō | secās | secat | secāmus | secātis | secant |
| imperfect | secābam | secābās | secābat | secābāmus | secābātis | secābant | |
| future | secābō | secābis | secābit | secābimus | secābitis | secābunt | |
| perfect | secuī | secuistī | secuit | secuimus | secuistis | secuērunt, secuēre | |
| pluperfect | secueram | secuerās | secuerat | secuerāmus | secuerātis | secuerant | |
| future perfect | secuerō | secueris | secuerit | secuerimus | secueritis | secuerint | |
| passive | present | secor | secāris, secāre | secātur | secāmur | secāminī | secantur |
| imperfect | secābar | secābāris, secābāre | secābātur | secābāmur | secābāminī | secābantur | |
| future | secābor | secāberis, secābere | secābitur | secābimur | secābiminī | secābuntur | |
| perfect | sectus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | sectus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | sectus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | secem | secēs | secet | secēmus | secētis | secent |
| imperfect | secārem | secārēs | secāret | secārēmus | secārētis | secārent | |
| perfect | secuerim | secuerīs | secuerit | secuerīmus | secuerītis | secuerint | |
| pluperfect | secuissem | secuissēs | secuisset | secuissēmus | secuissētis | secuissent | |
| passive | present | secer | secēris, secēre | secētur | secēmur | secēminī | secentur |
| imperfect | secārer | secārēris, secārēre | secārētur | secārēmur | secārēminī | secārentur | |
| perfect | sectus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | sectus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | secā | — | — | secāte | — |
| future | — | secātō | secātō | — | secātōte | secantō | |
| passive | present | — | secāre | — | — | secāminī | — |
| future | — | secātor | secātor | — | — | secantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | secāre | secuisse | sectūrum esse | secārī | sectum esse | sectum īrī | |
| participles | secāns | — | sectūrus | — | sectus | secandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| secandī | secandō | secandum | secandō | sectum | sectū | ||
Derived terms
- consecō
- dēsecō
- dissecō
- exsecō
- insecō
- intersecō
- persecō
- praesecō
- prōsecō
- resecō
- secespita
- secta
- sectārius
- sector
- secula
- secūris
- segmen
- segmentum
- serra
- subsecō
Descendants
- Asturian: segar
- Catalan: segar
- English: sect, section
- Franco-Provençal: séyer
- French: scier
- Friulian: seâ
- Galician: segar
- Italian: secare, segare
- Neapolitan: secà
- Occitan: segar
- Portuguese: segar
- Romansch: segar, sagear, sger, saer, sgiar
- Spanish: segar
- Venetian: segar, siegar
References
- “seco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “seco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- seco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛt͡sɔ]
Verb
seco
- third-person singular present of sec
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese seco, from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.ku/
- Homophone: Seco
- Hyphenation: se‧co
Adjective
seco (feminine seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas, comparable, comparative maisseco, superlative o maisseco or sequíssimo, diminutive sequinho, augmentative secão)
- devoid of liquids; dry
- Antonyms: molhado, úmido, viscoso
- desiccated (of fruits and plants that have been desiccated)
- Synonyms: dissecado, ressecado
- withered
- Synonyms: murcho, ressequido
- Antonym: exuberante
- (figurative, of a person) insensible, apathetic, cold
- Synonyms: apático, frio, indiferente, insensível
- Antonyms: afável, extrovertido, sociável
- (of a person) slender, thin
- Synonyms: esguio, magro
- Antonyms: corpulento, gordo
- (of a person) impolite, rude
- Synonyms: malcriado, mal-educado, rude
- Antonyms: educado, cortês
- (of a place) arid, desertic
- Synonyms: árido, desértico
- Antonyms: chuvoso, úmido
Derived terms
- a seco
- engolir em seco
- secamente
- secura
- sequidão
Related terms
- secar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ku/
- Hyphenation: se‧co
Verb
seco
- first-person singular present indicative of secar
Further reading
- Dicio.com
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseko/ [ˈse.ko]
- Rhymes: -eko
- Syllabification: se‧co
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish, from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Adjective
seco (feminine seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas, superlative sequísimo)
- dry
- Antonyms: húmedo, mojado
Derived terms
- alveolitis seca
- a palo seco
- a secas
- en seco
- fruto seco
- hielo seco
- ley seca
- limpieza en seco
- palo seco
- reseco
- sequedad
- sequía
- sopa seca
- traje seco
Related terms
- secar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
seco
- first-person singular present indicative of secar
Further reading
- “seco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- cose