seca

seca f (plural seques)

1. drought

• secura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ka]

seca

1. feminine singular of sec

seca f (plural seques)

1. sandbar, shoal, reef

   Synonyms: escull, secany

Borrowed from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ka]

seca f (plural seques)

1. mint (building or workshop where money is produced)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ka]

seca

1. inflection of secar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛka/
• Hyphenation: se‧ca

seca f (plural seche)

1. alternative form of sega

• “sega, seca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): [ˈsekɐ]

From Latin siccus (“dry”).

seca f (plural secas)

1. drought
2. low tide

   Synonym: baixamar

seca

1. feminine singular of seco

seca

1. inflection of secar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛka
• Hyphenation: sè‧ca

seca

1. inflection of secare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• asce, case, esca

secā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of secō

• "seca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

seca f

1. saw

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seca

1. feminine singular of sec

Deverbal from secar.

• sêca (pre-reform spelling, Brazil)
• secca (pre-standardization spelling)

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧ca

seca f (plural secas)

1. (meteorology) drought (period of unusually low rainfall)

   Synonym: estiagem

2. act of drying

   Synonym: secagem

3. (colloquial, figurative) nuisance; bore

   Synonym: chatice

   Que seca! ― What a drag!

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧ca

seca

1. inflection of secar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Rhymes: -ekɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧ca

seca

1. feminine singular of seco

Inherited from Latin siccāre.

a seca (third-person singular present seacă, past participle secat, third-person subjunctive sece) 1st conjugation

1. to dry up
2. to strip (to completely take away, to plunder)
3. to drain, exhaust, empty

• secare

• sec
• secăciune
• secetă

• usca

Inherited from Latin secāre, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

a seca (third-person singular present seacă, past participle secat) 1st conjugation

1. (rare) to cut; to reap, harvest

   Synonyms: tăia, secera

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian seka.

seca f (uncountable)

1. (regional, usually before a woman's name) lady, madam

   Synonyms: (popular) lele, mătușă, nană, tanti

2. (regional) sister-in-law

   Synonym: cumnată

• IPA^(key): /ˈseka/ [ˈse.ka]

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• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: se‧ca
• Homophone: ceca

seca

1. feminine singular of seco

seca

1. inflection of secar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative