seka

See also seka-, and sekä

Esperanto

Etymology

From French sec, Spanish seco, Portuguese seco, Italian secco, from Latin siccus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seik-. Further similar Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухой (suxój), Lithuanian sausas and Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈseka/

Adjective

seka (plural sekaj, accusative singular sekan, accusative plural sekajn)

1. dry
   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, ISBN 9789071205774, OCLC 46863861:

     Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.

     He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

Antonyms

• malseka

Derived terms

• sekeco (dryness)
• sekega (very dry)
• seketa (slightly dry)
• sekigi (to dry, vt.)
• sekiĝi (to dry off, vi.)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

seka f (Cyrillic spelling сека)

1. (informal) sis; an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin

See also

• sestra