secare
See also: secaré
Asturian
Verb
secare
- inflection of secar:
- first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
- first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin secāre. Compare the doublet segare (“to saw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: se‧cà‧re
Verb
secàre (first-person singular present sèco, first-person singular past historic secài, past participle secàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- (archaic, literary) to cut, to cut off
- 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia[1], published 1553, page 96:
- raccenderò la casta verbena, et meschi Incensi con altre herbe, non divelte dalle radici, ma secate con acuta falce
- I shall put on the fire the chaste vervain, and mixed incenses with other herbs, not uprooted, but cut off with a sharp scythe
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto nono [Ninth Canto]”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered][2], Erasmo Viotti, page 224:
- Così,parlando anchor, diè per la gola
Ad Algazel, di sì crudel percossa:
che gli secò le fauci: e la parola
Troncò, ch’à la risposta era già mossa.- Thus, still talking, he hit Algazel's throat, so fiercely that he split his mouth, and cut off his words, already about to reply
- (archaic, literary, figurative) to cut through
- (mathematics, geometry) to intersect
- Synonym: intersecare
Conjugation
Conjugation of secàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
| infinitive | secàre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | secàndo | |||
| present participle | secànte | past participle | secàto | |||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
| present | sèco | sèchi | sèca | sechiàmo | secàte | sècano |
| imperfect | secàvo | secàvi | secàva | secavàmo | secavàte | secàvano |
| past historic | secài | secàsti | secò | secàmmo | secàste | secàrono |
| future | secherò | secherài | secherà | secherémo | secheréte | secherànno |
| conditional | secherèi | secherésti | secherèbbe, secherébbe | secherémmo | secheréste | secherèbbero, secherébbero |
| subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
| present | sèchi | sèchi | sèchi | sechiàmo | sechiàte | sèchino |
| imperfect | secàssi | secàssi | secàsse | secàssimo | secàste | secàssero |
| imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
| sèca | sèchi | sechiàmo | secàte | sèchino | ||
| negative imperative | non secàre | non sèchi | non sechiàmo | non secàte | non sèchino | |
Related terms
- bisecare (“to bisect”)
- dissecare (“to dissect”)
- estrinsecare (“to express”)
- intersecare (“to intersect”)
- intrinsecare
- resecare (“to resect”)
- risecare
- trisecare (“to trisect”)
See also
References
- secare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛˈkaː.rɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈkaː.re]
Verb
secāre
- inflection of secō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Neapolitan
Alternative forms
- secà (alt. spelling)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Naples) IPA(key): [səˈka]
Verb
secare
- to saw
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 555: “segare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “secare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[3]
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
secare f (plural secări)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | secare | secarea | secări | secările | |
| genitive-dative | secări | secării | secări | secărilor | |
| vocative | secare, secareo | secărilor | |||
Spanish
Verb
secare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of secar