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secare

Secare is a Latin verb meaning to cut, divide, or carve. In classical texts, the infinitive secāre conveys both literal cutting with a blade and more figurative sense of separating or trimming. As an archaic or scholarly form, it appears in linguistic discussions and Latin grammars as the base form from which many later terms derive.

The root sec- or sect- in Latin has given rise to a broad family of words in

In scholarly contexts, secāre is primarily of interest as an etymological and philological touchstone. It appears

See also: Latin verbs, etymology of section and sector, dissection, sec- roots.

English
and
other
languages
that
carry
the
idea
of
cutting
or
separating.
English
words
such
as
section,
sector,
and
dissect
trace
their
origins
to
Latin
derivatives
of
secāre
or
related
forms
such
as
sectio
(a
cutting
or
division)
and
dissecāre
(to
cut
apart).
Through
these
links,
the
concept
of
cutting
or
dividing
persists
across
technical
vocabulary
in
law,
science,
and
everyday
language.
in
dictionaries
and
grammars
as
the
canonical
infinitive
form
of
a
core
Latin
verb,
useful
for
tracing
the
development
of
related
words
and
for
illustrating
Latin’s
impact
on
the
vocabulary
of
English
and
the
Romance
languages.
Outside
linguistic
study,
the
term
is
not
widely
used
as
a
common
noun
or
proper
name.