Italian

Verb

secerno

1. first-person singular present indicative of secernere

Anagrams

• censore

Latin

Etymology

From sē- ‎(“without; aside, by itself”) +‎ cernō ‎(“see, discern”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seːˈker.noː/, [seːˈkɛr.noː]

Verb

sēcernō ‎(present infinitive sēcernere, perfect active sēcrēvī, supine sēcrētum); third conjugation

1. I put apart, sunder, sever, separate.
2. (figuratively) I disjoin, part, dissociate, separate.
3. (figuratively) I distinguish, discern.
4. (figuratively) I set aside, reject, exclude, pull aside.

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Descendants

• Catalan: secretar
• English: secern
• Italian: secernere
• Spanish: secretar

References

• secerno in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• secerno in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “secerno”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.