secretus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“separate; part; reject”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈkreː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkrɛː.tus]

Participle

sēcrētus (feminine sēcrēta, neuter sēcrētum, comparative sēcrētior, adverb sēcrētē); first/second-declension participle

1. put apart, sundered, severed, separated, having been separated
2. (figuratively) disjoined, parted, dissociated, having been parted
3. (figuratively) distinguished, discerned, having been discerned
4. (figuratively) set apart, rejected, excluded, having been excluded
5. (figuratively) secluded, deserted, having been secluded
6. (figuratively) confided only to a few, secret, hidden

   Synonyms: clandestīnus, obscūrus, arcānus, occultus, perobscūrus

   Antonyms: manifestus, conspicuus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sēcrētus	sēcrēta	sēcrētum		sēcrētī	sēcrētae	sēcrēta
genitive	sēcrētī	sēcrētae	sēcrētī		sēcrētōrum	sēcrētārum	sēcrētōrum
dative	sēcrētō	sēcrētae	sēcrētō		sēcrētīs
accusative	sēcrētum	sēcrētam	sēcrētum		sēcrētōs	sēcrētās	sēcrēta
ablative	sēcrētō	sēcrētā	sēcrētō		sēcrētīs
vocative	sēcrēte	sēcrēta	sēcrētum		sēcrētī	sēcrētae	sēcrēta

Derived terms

• sēcrētē
• sēcrētō

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: săcret
• Italian: segreto
  • → Sicilian: sigretu
• Old French: segrei
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: secret
  • Occitan: secret
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: segredo
  • Portuguese: segredo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: segret, secret
  • Ladin: sucrët
  • Romansh: sacret
• Sardinian: segretu
• Sicilian: sicritu
  • → Maltese: sigriet
• Venetan: secreto, segreto, segret
• → Albanian: shkretë
  • → Aromanian: shcret, shcretu
• → Alemannic German: Sekreet
• → Asturian: secretu
• → Basque: sekretu
• → Galician: secreto
• → Italian: secreto
• → Macedonian: секрет (sekret)
• → Portuguese: secreto
• → Romanian: secret
• → Old French: secret
  • Middle French: secret
    • French: secret
      • → Romanian: secret
  • Norman: s'gret, ségret
  • Walloon: sicret
  • → Middle English: secrette
    • English: secret, secrette, secrete, secreat (obsolete)
      • Pitcairn-Norfolk: siikret
    • Scots: saicret
• → Romansh: secret
• → Russian: секрет (sekret)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: секрет

  Latin script: sekret

• → Spanish: secreto

References

• “secretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “secretus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto