secrete

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: sĭkrētʹ, IPA(key): /sɪˈkɹiːt/, /səˈkɹiːt/ Rhymes: -iːt === Etymology 1 === First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”). ==== Adjective ==== secrete (not comparable) (obsolete, rare) Separated. 1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582: […] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter. […] This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things. === Etymology 2 === First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“to separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar. ==== Verb ==== secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted) (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function. Synonym: (archaic) secern (transitive, figurative) To exude or yield. 1863: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880) If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Alteration of secret. ==== Verb ==== secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted) (transitive) To conceal. ===== Usage notes ===== The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print. ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== secrete (comparative more secrete, superlative most secrete) Archaic form of secret. a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser) === References === “†seˈcrete, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) (adjective) OED (second edition), “secrete, v.” (verb and figurative senses) === Anagrams === Treeces == Italian == === Adjective === secrete feminine plural of secreto === Participle === secrete f pl feminine plural of secreto === Anagrams === cretese, escrete == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From the perfect passive participle sēcrētus (“sundered, secluded, hidden”) +‎ -ē. ==== Alternative forms ==== sēcrētō ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [seːˈkreː.teː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈkrɛː.te] ==== Adverb ==== sēcrētē (comparative sēcrētius, superlative sēcrētissimē) secretly, in secret, privately === Etymology 2 === Inflection of perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“separate; part; reject”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [seːˈkreː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈkrɛː.te] ==== Participle ==== sēcrēte vocative masculine singular of sēcrētus === References === “secrete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press secrete in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ Hyphenation: se‧cre‧te === Verb === secrete inflection of secretar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /seˈkɾete/ [seˈkɾe.t̪e] Rhymes: -ete Syllabification: se‧cre‧te === Verb === secrete inflection of secretar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative