secare

secare

1. inflection of secar:
   1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

From Latin secāre, probably borrowed. Compare the doublet segare (“to saw”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: se‧cà‧re

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

• seccare

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

secāre

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

From seca +‎ -re.

secare f (plural secări)

1. drying up

secare

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