secare

See also: secaré

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	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

• bisecare (“to bisect”)
• dissecare (“to dissect”)
• estrinsecare (“to express”)
• intersecare (“to intersect”)
• intrinsecare
• resecare (“to resect”)
• risecare
• trisecare (“to trisect”)

See also

• seccare

References

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

Anagrams

• Cesare, arcese, ascree, cerase, escare, esecra, reseca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈkaː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkaː.re]

Verb

secāre

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

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• secà (alt. spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin secāre.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [səˈka]

Verb

secare

1. to saw

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – 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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	secare	secarea		secări	secările
genitive-dative	secări	secării		secări	secărilor
vocative	secare, secareo			secărilor

Spanish

Verb

secare

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