secar

From Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō.

secar (first-person singular indicative present seco, past participle secáu)

1. to dry

• secu

Inherited from Latin siccāre. By surface analysis, sec +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [seˈkaɾ]

secar (first-person singular present seco, first-person singular preterite sequí, past participle secat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. Alternative form of assecar

• “secar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “secar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese secar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō.

• IPA^(key): /seˈkar/

secar (first-person singular present seco, first-person singular preterite sequei, past participle secado)

1. to dry

   Synonym: desecar

2. to wipe dry

   Synonym: enxugar

3. to become dry

   Synonyms: agostar, estiñar

4. to wither

   Synonym: agostar

5. (of a mammal animal) to cease to milk, to dry

   Synonym: estiñar

• desecar
• seca
• secador
• seco
• sequeiro

• “secar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “secar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “secar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “secar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “secar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “secar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “secar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan, from Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō.

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secar

1. to dry; to dry out

• assecar
• dessecar
• sec

• seccar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin siccāre, from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• Hyphenation: se‧car

secar (first-person singular present seco, first-person singular preterite sequei, past participle secado)

1. (intransitive) to dry (to become dry)

   Synonym: evaporar

2. (transitive) to dry (to make dry)

   Antonyms: aguar, molhar, humedecer, humidificar, humectar

   • 2022, “a cor púrpura”, performed by Djonga:

     Uma pessoa me tocou sem eu querer / E ainda me convenceu que eu gostava / Molhou com seu suor minha pele infantil / E secou minhas lágrimas sempre que eu chorava

     Someone touched me without my consent / And even convinced me that I liked it / They wet my infantile skin with their sweat / And dried my tears whenever I cried

3. to dry up (to deprive someone of something vital)
4. (intransitive) to wither (to shrivel, droop or dry up)

   Synonyms: esgotar, mirrar, murchar

• desecar
• seca
• secador
• seco

• enxugar

Inherited from Latin siccāre.

• IPA^(key): /seˈkaɾ/ [seˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧car

secar (first-person singular present seco, first-person singular preterite sequé, past participle secado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to dry

• enjugar

• “secar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014