seco

seco

1. first-person singular present indicative of secar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈse.ko]

seco

1. first-person singular present indicative of secar

Inherited from Spanish seco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseko/, [ˈse.ko]
• Hyphenation: se‧co

seco (feminine seca)

1. dry

   Antonym: mojao

From Latin siccus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsekʊ]

seco (feminine seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas)

1. dry (free from or lacking moisture)

   Synonym: enxoito

   Antonym: húmido

2. harsh
3. skinny
4. (of a staple food) alone, unaccompanied

seco m (plural secos)

1. dry land

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seco

1. first-person singular present indicative of secar

• “seco”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• “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.

From Latin sēcum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ko/
• Rhymes: -eko
• Hyphenation: sé‧co

seco

1. (archaic, literary) with oneself; within oneself; among themselves
2. (archaic, literary) with him; with her; with them

• seco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -esco, Cose, OCSE, cose, esco

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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.koː/, [ˈs̠ɛkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ko/, [ˈsɛːko]

secō (present infinitive secāre, perfect active secuī, supine sectum); first conjugation

1. to 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.

2. to cleave, divide

   Synonyms: dīvidō, sēgregō, sēparō, sēcernō, dirimō, intersaepiō, distinguō, discrībō

   Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō

3. (medicine) to operate, amputate, perform surgery
4. to castrate
5. (by extension) to wound, injure

   Synonyms: feriō, vulnerō, noceō, īnfestō

6. (figuratively) to hurt with one's words

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: segare
  • Neapolitan: secare
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: seâ
  • Piedmontese: sié
  • Romansch: segar, sagear, sger, saer, sgiar
  • Venetian: segar, siegar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: segar
  • Franco-Provençal: séyer
  • French: scier
  • Occitan: segar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: segar
  • Asturian: segar
  • Leonese: segare
  • Mirandese: segar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: segar
    • Fala: segal
    • Galician: segar
    • Portuguese: segar
  • Old Spanish: segar
    • Ladino: segar
    • Spanish: segar
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: secare

• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛt͡sɔ]

seco

1. third-person singular present of sec

From Old Galician-Portuguese seco, from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• Homophone: Seco
• Hyphenation: se‧co

seco (feminine seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas, comparable, comparative mais seco, superlative o mais seco or sequíssimo, diminutive sequinho, augmentative secão)

1. devoid of liquids; dry

   Antonyms: molhado, úmido, viscoso

2. desiccated (of fruits and plants that have been desiccated)

   Synonyms: dissecado, ressecado

3. withered

   Synonyms: murcho, ressequido

   Antonym: exuberante

4. (figurative, of a person) insensible, apathetic, cold

   Synonyms: apático, frio, indiferente, insensível

   Antonyms: afável, extrovertido, sociável

5. (of a person) slender, thin

   Synonyms: esguio, magro

   Antonyms: corpulento, gordo

6. (of a person) impolite, rude

   Synonyms: malcriado, mal-educado, rude

   Antonyms: educado, cortês

7. (of a place) arid, desertic

   Synonyms: árido, desértico

   Antonyms: chuvoso, úmido

• secar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: se‧co

seco

1. first-person singular present indicative of secar

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• IPA^(key): /ˈseko/ [ˈse.ko]
• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: se‧co

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

seco (feminine seca, masculine plural secos, feminine plural secas, superlative sequísimo)

1. dry

   Antonyms: húmedo, mojado

• Chavacano: seco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seco

1. first-person singular present indicative of secar

• “seco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• cose