secretar

From Latin sēcrētum, supine of sēcernō (“separate, disjoin”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secretí, past participle secretat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. to secrete

• secreció

• “secretar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “secretar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “secretar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “secretar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧tar

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secretei, past participle secretado)

1. (physiology) to secrete (to produce and ooze a substance)

   Synonyms: excretar, segregar

• secreção

• “secretar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from French secrétaire, from Medieval Latin secretarius.

secretar m (plural secretari)

1. secretary

From Latin secrētum, supine of sēcernō (“separate, disjoin”).

• IPA^(key): /sekɾeˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧cre‧tar

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secreté, past participle secretado)

1. to secrete

• “secretar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28