secretum

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English

Etymology

From Latin sēcrētum.[1] Doublet of secret.

Noun

secretum (plural secreta)

  1. A special seal used for private correspondence.
    • 1774, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, page 334:
      A personal Seal having a secretum is unusual; with armorial and monastic seals they are very common; […]

References

  1. ^ “secretum, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Participle

sēcrētum

  1. inflection of sēcrētus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

sēcrētum n (genitive sēcrētī); second declension

  1. withdrawal, loneliness, secluded place
  2. secret, private matter or conversation
    in secreto, in secretum, a secreto ― secretly, discreetly, in a private manner, without witness
  3. (in the plural) private life
  4. (in the plural) secret documents
  5. (in the plural) mystery, secret cult
  6. to be mysterious, mysterious presence

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative sēcrētum sēcrēta
genitive sēcrētī sēcrētōrum
dative sēcrētō sēcrētīs
accusative sēcrētum sēcrēta
ablative sēcrētō sēcrētīs
vocative sēcrētum sēcrēta

References

  • “secretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • secretum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • secretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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