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Latin
Etymology
From sē + -cum (“with”).
Adverb
sēcum (not comparable)
- with him-/her-/itself or themselves
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.74:
- Nunc mediā Aenēān sēcum per moenia dūcit, .
- Now leads Aeneas with her, in the midst throughout the fortifications , .
(Dido and Aeneas begin to be seen together more often in public.)
Duxit secum virginem.- He led the girl with himself.
- Pompeius a me petiit ut secum, et apud se quotidie essem.
- Pompeius requested me to be with him and at his house every day.
Filium perduxere illuc secum, ut una esset, meum.- They took my son along with them in their company thither.
Amœnitates omnium Venerum atque venustatum is secum adfert.- He brings all kinds of pleasures with him.
Descendants
References
- “secum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) circumstances demand: tempus (ita) fert (not secum)
- (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: secum (cum animo) reputare aliquid
- (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: considerare in, cum animo, secum aliquid
- (ambiguous) to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: secum pugnare (without sibi); sibi repugnare (of things)
- (ambiguous) to live to oneself: secum vivere