secerno

secerno

1. first-person singular present indicative of secernere

• censore

From sē- (“aside, by itself”) +‎ cernō (“to see, to discern”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈkɛr.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈt͡ʃɛr.no]

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

1. to put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide

   Synonyms: sēgregō, sēparō, findō, dirimō, secō, exclūdō, dīvidō, distinguō, intersaepiō, dīvertō, discrībō

   Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.32:

     Quā rē, sēcēdant improbī, sēcernant sē ā bonīs, ūnum in locum congregentur, mūrō dēnique, quod saepe iam dīxī, sēcernantur ā nōbīs; […] .

     For this reason, let the wicked depart; let them separate themselves from the good [people]. Let them gather into a single place, and finally, let them be separated from us by a wall — [a measure] I have now often mentioned.

2. (figuratively) to disjoin, part, dissociate, separate
3. (figuratively) to distinguish, discern

   sēparō

4. (figuratively) to set aside, reject, exclude, pull aside

   Synonym: exclūdō

• Catalan: secretar
• French: sécréter
• English: secern, secrete
• Italian: secernere
• Portuguese: secretar
• Sicilian: sicèrniri
• Spanish: secretar

• “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
• “secerno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.