secans

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Catalan

Adjective

secans

  1. masculine plural of secà

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of secō (cut, cleave)

Participle

secāns (genitive secantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. cutting
  2. cleaving, dividing
  3. (medicine) operating, amputating
  4. castrating
  5. (by extension) wounding, injuring

Declension

Third-declension participle.

1When used purely as an adjective.

Polish

secans

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin secāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.kans/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛkans
  • Syllabification: se‧cans

Noun

secans m inan (related adjective secansowy)

  1. (trigonometry) secant (in a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle)
    Hypernym: funkcja trygonometryczna
    Coordinate terms: cosecans, cosinus, cotangens, sinus, tangens

Declension

adjective
adverb
noun

Further reading

  • secans in Polish dictionaries at PWN