secare

secare

1. inflection of secar:
   1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

Borrowed from Latin secāre. Compare the doublet segare (“to saw”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: se‧cà‧re

secàre (first-person singular present sèco, first-person singular past historic secài, past participle secàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. (archaic, literary) to cut, to cut off

   Synonyms: segare, tagliare

   • 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia‎^[1], published 1553, page 96:

     raccenderò la casta verbena, et meschi Incensi con altre herbe, non divelte dalle radici, ma secate con acuta falce

     I shall put on the fire the chaste vervain, and mixed incenses with other herbs, not uprooted, but cut off with a sharp scythe

   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto nono”, in Gerusalemme liberata‎^[2], Erasmo Viotti, page 224:

     Così,parlando anchor, diè per la gola
     Ad Algazel, di sì crudel percossa:
     che gli secò le fauci: e la parola
     Troncò, ch’à la risposta era già mossa.

     Thus, still talking, he hit Algazel's throat, so fiercely that he split his mouth, and cut off his words, already about to reply

2. (archaic, literary, figurative) to cut through
3. (mathematics, geometry) to intersect

   Synonym: intersecare

• seccare

• secare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Cesare, arcese, ascree, cerase, escare, esecra, reseca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈkaː.re/, [s̠ɛˈkäːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈka.re/, [seˈkäːre]

secāre

1. inflection of secō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

• secà (alt. spelling)

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [səˈka]

secare

1. to saw

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 555: “segare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “secare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

From seca +‎ -re.

secare f (plural secări)

1. drying up

secare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of secar