sech

See also: Sech, sec'h, sếch, and sệch

Translingual

Pronunciation

• English:
  • IPA^(key): /sɛtʃ/, /ˈʃɛk/

Symbol

sech

1. (mathematics) The hyperbolic function hyperbolic secant.

Usage notes

The symbol sech is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

See also

• csch
• coth
• arcsech

English

Determiner

sech

1. (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of such.

Anagrams

• Ches., Esch, hESC

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zeχ/, [zəɕ]

Pronoun

sech

1. third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
2. third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
3. third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
4. third-person plural, reflexive: themselves

Declension

Luxembourgish personal pronouns

				nominative		accusative		dative		reflexive
				stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
singular	1st person			ech	—	mech	—	mir	mer	like dat. and acc.
	2nd person	informal		du	de	dech	—	dir	der	like dat. and acc.
		formal		Dir	Der	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech
	3rd person		m	hien	en	hien	en	him	em	sech
			f	si	se	si	se	hir	er	sech
			n	hatt	et ('t)	hatt	et ('t)	him	em	sech
plural	1st person			mir	mer	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)
	2nd person			dir	der	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech
	3rd person			si	se	si	se	hinnen	en	sech

Middle English

Adjective

sech

1. alternative form of sik

Old Irish

Etymology

• Traditionally derived from Proto-Celtic *sekʷos (“besides, without”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-o-s (“following”) (compare Latin secus (“along”) and Sanskrit सचा (sácā, “with”)), from *sekʷ- (“to follow”).
• This is disputed by Klingenschmitt, who proposes Proto-Indo-European *se-ḱwo-s (“separate, by itself”), from *swé.
• Or from *sek- (“to cut”).

In any case cognate with Welsh heb (“without”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲex/

Preposition

sech (with accusative)

1. past, beyond
2. in preference to, rather than, instead of
3. different from
4. beyond, above, more than

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sech.

Inflection

Inflection of sech

	Person:		normal	emphatic
singular	first		sechum
	second		sechut
	third m or n	dative
		accusative	sech(a)e, sechæ
	third f	dative
		accusative	secce
plural	first		sechund
	second
	third	dative
		accusative	seccu

Forms combined with the definite article:

• sechin (“different from the m sg or f sg”)
• secha (“different from the n sg”)
• sechna (“different from the pl”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• sechmo (“different from my”)

Forms combined with the relative pronoun:

• secha

Descendants

• Irish: seach
• Manx: shagh
• Scottish Gaelic: seach

Conjunction

sech

1. (subordinating) yet, although
2. (coordinating) both…and, neither…nor (before negative clauses)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sech.

Usage notes

As a coordinating conjunction, used before the first of two clauses to be conjoined: sech X, Y (“both X and Y”), sech ní X, ní Y (“neither X nor Y”).

Derived terms

• sech is

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, §§ 434, 853, pages 273, 530; reprinted 2017

Romansh

Alternative forms

• sitg, setg (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran)
• schetg, sec (Sursilvan)
• sétg (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)

1. (Puter, Vallader) dry

Welsh

Adjective

sech (not mutable)

1. feminine singular of sych

Verb

sech (not mutable)

1. contraction of basech