sec

sec

1. (trigonometry) symbol of the trigonometric function secant.
2. (nonstandard) symbol of second, an SI unit of measurement of time. s.

Abbreviation of second.

• IPA^(key): /sɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

sec (plural sec or secs)

1. (colloquial) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
2. (colloquial) Abbreviation of second. (A short indeterminate period of time.)

   Wait a sec!

• sec.

• CES, CEs, CSE, ECS, ESC, Esc, sce.

From Latin siccus. Compare Daco-Romanian sec.

• secu

sec

1. dry
2. barren, deserted

From Latin siccō. Compare Daco-Romanian seca, sec.

• secu

sec (third-person singular present seacã, past participle sicatã)

1. I dry, dry up.
2. I exhaust, wither, drain, empty.

• sicari / sicare
• sicat
• sicãturã
• seatsitã

From Old Occitan sec, from Latin siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈsək/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsek/

sec (feminine seca, masculine plural secs, feminine plural seques)

1. dry
2. skinny

• eixut

• assecar (verb)
• cor sec m
• dida seca f
• paret seca f
• pedra seca f
• pedregada seca f
• a peu sec (adverb)
• en sec (adverb)
• a seques (adverb)
• de seques i de verdes (adjective)
• seca f
• secà (adjective)
• secada f
• secall m
• secalló m (adjective)
• secallós (adjective)
• secament (adverb)
• secaner (adjective)
• secor f
• sequedat f
• sequer m
• sequera f
• sequeral m
• ulls secs m pl
• vi sec m

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk/

sec

1. first-person singular present indicative form of seure

• Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). →ISBN.

From Old French sec, from Latin siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• IPA^(key): /sɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

sec (feminine singular sèche, masculine plural secs, feminine plural sèches)

1. dry
2. dried, having had its moisture evaporated

   Des abricots secs. ― Dried apricots.

   Du poisson sec. ― Dried fish.

3. lean, thin, skinny
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter I:

     [I]l était de complexion robuste, maigre de corps, sec de visage, fort matineux et grand ami de la chasse.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

     [H]e was of a robust complexion, thin in the body, lean in the face, a very early riser and a friend of the hunt.

4. (of alcohol) bitter, not sweet
5. (of a person) harsh
   • Désolé si j'ai été un peu sec.

     Sorry if I was a bit harsh.

sec m (plural secs)

1. something that is dry
   • 1883, La Bible, translated by Louis Segond, Genesis 1:9

     Que les eaux qui sont au-dessous du ciel se rassemblent en un seul lieu, et que le sec paraisse.

     Let the waters below the heavens gather in one place, and let the dry stuff (i.e. the land) come forth.

• à sec
• cul sec

• “sec” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ces

• ssez (obsolete)

From Proto-Slavic *sěťi (“to cut, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛt͡s/

sec impf (perfective pósec)

1. to mow (cut something down)

• seoc

sēc

1. (Anglian) sick

From Latin siccus.

sec m (oblique and nominative feminine singular seiche)

1. dry (lacking moisture)

• French: sec
• Norman: sé
• Walloon: setch

From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• IPA^(key): /sek/

sec m or n (feminine singular seacă, plural seci)

1. dry
2. barren, empty, deserted; also dried up
3. (figuratively) missing or deficient in something, lacking; also useless
4. (figuratively) dull, stupid, empty-headed
5. (regional, Transylvania) skinny

• (dry): uscat
• (empty): gol, deșert
• (stupid): prost
• (skinny): slab

• seca
• secetă

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) sitg, setg
• (Sursilvan) schetg
• (Sutsilvan) sétg
• (Puter, Vallader) sech

From Latin siccus.

sec m (feminine singular secca, masculine plural secs, feminine plural seccas)

1. (Sursilvan) dry