sech

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See also: Sech and sec'h

Translingual

Pronunciation

  • English:

Symbol

sech

  1. (mathematics) The symbol of 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

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekʷo- (besides, without) (compare Welsh heb (without)), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (to follow) or *sek- (to cut).

Pronunciation

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

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:

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.