securus

Latin

Etymology

From sē- (“without”) +‎ cūra (“care”); see cure. Similar to Latin sine cūrā (“without care, carefree”), which led to English sinecure.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /seːˈkuː.rus/, [s̠eːˈkuːrʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈku.rus/, [seˈkuːrus]

Adjective

sēcūrus (feminine sēcūra, neuter sēcūrum, comparative sēcūrior, adverb sēcūrē); first/second-declension adjective

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	sēcūrus	sēcūra	sēcūrum	sēcūrī	sēcūrae	sēcūra
Genitive	sēcūrī	sēcūrae	sēcūrī	sēcūrōrum	sēcūrārum	sēcūrōrum
Dative	sēcūrō	sēcūrae	sēcūrō	sēcūrīs
Accusative	sēcūrum	sēcūram	sēcūrum	sēcūrōs	sēcūrās	sēcūra
Ablative	sēcūrō	sēcūrā	sēcūrō	sēcūrīs
Vocative	sēcūre	sēcūra	sēcūrum	sēcūrī	sēcūrae	sēcūra

Derived terms

Descendants

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: siguru
Franco-Provençal: sûr
Gallo-Italic
- Emilian: sicûr
- Romagnol: sicur
- Lombard: seghüür, sigüür, sügür
- Piedmontese: sur
Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: sicuru, siguru
- Neapolitan: sicuro
- Italian: sicuro
- Sicilian: sicuru
Old French: seür
- Angevin: seür
- Middle French: sceur
  - French: sûr
    - Seychellois Creole: sir
- Norman: seûr
- Walloon: sûr
- → Middle English: sure
  - English: sure
    - →⇒ Irish: siúráil
    - → Welsh: siwr
  - Scots: shuir
Old Occitan: segur
- Occitan: segur
- Old Catalan: segur
  - Catalan: segur
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: sigûr
- Ladin: segur
- Romansch: sigir, sagir, siir, sieir, sgür
Sardinian: securu, siguru, seguru, siguru
Venetian: seguro, siguro
- → Greek: σίγουρος (sígouros)
  - → Romanian: sigur
    - → Bulgarian: сигурен (siguren)
    - → Macedonian: сигурен (siguren)
- → Serbo-Croatian: siguran / сигуран
West Iberian
- Navarro-Aragonese: seguro
  - Aragonese: seguro
- Old Leonese: seguro
  - Asturian: seguru
  - Leonese: seguru
- Old Portuguese: seguro
  - Fala: seguru
  - Galician: seguro
  - Portuguese: seguro
    - Guinea-Bissau Creole: suguru
    - Kabuverdianu: suguru, siguru
- Old Spanish: seguro
  - Ladino: seguro, siguro
  - Spanish: seguro
    - Chavacano: siguro
    - Papiamentu: sigur
    - → Cebuano: seguro
    - → Tagalog: siguro
Sabir: sicuro, seguro
→ Dutch: secuur
→ English: secure
→ Proto-Brythonic: *segʉr
- Middle Breton: sigur
- Cornish: zigyr, sêgyr
- Middle Welsh: segur
  - Welsh: segur
→ Proto-West Germanic: *sikur (see there for further descendants)

References

“securus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“securus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
securus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
securus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to enjoy peace of mind: quieto, tranquillo, securo animo esse

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