secreto

See also: secretó and secretò

Asturian

Adjective

secreto

1. neuter of secretu

Catalan

Verb

secreto

1. first-person singular present indicative of secretar

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin secrētus. Doublet of segredo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkɾeto/ [s̺eˈkɾe.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧to

Adjective

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secretos, feminine plural secretas)

1. secret

Related terms

• segredo

Further reading

• “secreto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin sēcrētus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkre.to/
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: se‧cré‧to
• IPA^(key): /seˈkrɛ.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛto
  • Hyphenation: se‧crè‧to

Adjective

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secreti, feminine plural secrete) (literary)

1. alternative form of segreto (“secret, hidden”)

Noun

secreto m (plural secreti) (literary)

1. alternative form of segreto (“secret”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkrɛ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: se‧crè‧to

Participle

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secreti, feminine plural secrete)

1. past participle of secernere

Adjective

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secreti, feminine plural secrete)

1. (relational) secretion; secreted

Noun

secreto m (plural secreti)

1. secretion

Related terms

• secretivo
• secretore
• secretorio
• secrezione

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkre.to/
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: se‧cré‧to
• IPA^(key): /seˈkrɛ.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛto
  • Hyphenation: se‧crè‧to

Verb

secreto

1. first-person singular present indicative of secretare

Anagrams

• Cortese, certose, cortese, cretose, escreto, estorce

Latin

Participle

sēcrētō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēcrētus

References

• “secreto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secreto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “secreto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• secreto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛtu

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkɾɛ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkɾɛ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkɾɛ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈkɾɛ.tu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧to

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin sēcrētus. Doublet of segredo.

Adjective

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secretos, feminine plural secretas, comparable, comparative mais secreto, superlative o mais secreto or secretíssimo)

1. secret

Related terms

• segredo

Noun

secreto m (plural secretos)

1. (Portugal, cooking, chiefly in the plural) Succulent cut of pork meat taken from the muscle inside the fatty pork belly.

   secretos de porco preto com laranja

   secretos of black pork with orange

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

secreto

1. first-person singular present indicative of secretar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkɾeto/ [seˈkɾe.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: se‧cre‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin secrētus.

Adjective

secreto (feminine secreta, masculine plural secretos, feminine plural secretas)

1. secret

Derived terms

• agente secreta
• agente secreto
• policía secreta
• secreto de Estado
• secreto de naturaleza
• servicio secreto
• sociedad secreta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin secrētum.

Noun

secreto m (plural secretos)

1. a secret

   guardar el secreto

   keep the secret

2. secrecy

   Synonym: sigilo

Derived terms

• de secreto
• en secreto
• secretamente
• secretear
• secreteo
• secreto a voces
• secreto profesional
• servicio secreto

Descendants

• → Tagalog: sekreto

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

secreto

1. first-person singular present indicative of secretar

Further reading

• “secreto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024