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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
secretum (plural secreta)
- A special seal used for private correspondence.
- 1774, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, page 334:
- A personal Seal having a secretum is unusual; with armorial and monastic seals they are very common; […]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
sēcrētum
- inflection of sēcrētus:
Noun[edit]
sēcrētum n (genitive sēcrētī); second declension
- withdrawal, loneliness, secluded place
- secret, private matter or conversation
- (in the plural) private life
- (in the plural) secret documents
- (in the plural) mystery, secret cult
- to be mysterious, mysterious presence
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sēcrētum | sēcrēta |
Genitive | sēcrētī | sēcrētōrum |
Dative | sēcrētō | sēcrētīs |
Accusative | sēcrētum | sēcrēta |
Ablative | sēcrētō | sēcrētīs |
Vocative | sēcrētum | sēcrēta |
References[edit]
- “secretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secretum 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)
- secretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
- (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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