sech

See also: Sech and sec'h

Translingual

Pronunciation
  • English:
    • IPA(key): /sɛtʃ/, /ˈʃɛk/

Symbol

sech

  1. (mathematics) 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

English

Determiner

sech

  1. (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of such.

Anagrams

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zeχ/, [zəɕ]

Pronoun

sech

  1. third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
  2. third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
  3. third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
  4. 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)

  1. past, beyond
  2. 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.

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

  1. yet, although

Derived terms

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 328

Further reading

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)

  1. (Puter, Vallader) dry

Welsh

Adjective

sech (not mutable)

  1. feminine singular of sych

Verb

sech (not mutable)

  1. Contraction of basech.
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