secare

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Asturian

Verb

secare

  1. inflection of secar:
    1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
    2. 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)

  1. (archaic, literary) to cut, to cut off
    Synonyms: segare, tagliare
    • 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia‎, 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]‎, 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
  2. (archaic, literary, figurative) to cut through
  3. (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 io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present 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

Related terms

See also

References

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

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

secāre

  1. inflection of secō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin secāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

secare

  1. to saw

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 555: “segare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “secare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Romanian

Etymology

From seca +‎ -re.

Noun

secare f (plural secări)

  1. drying up

Declension

Declension of secare
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) secare secarea (niște) secări secările
genitive/dative (unei) secări secării (unor) secări secărilor
vocative secare, secareo secărilor

Spanish

Verb

secare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of secar
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