secar

From Latin siccāre.

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

1. to dry

• secu (“dry”)

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

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

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

1. alternative form of assecar (“to dry”)

• secada (“drought”)

• “secar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.

• 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “secar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “secar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “secar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “secar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “secar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “secar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “secar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan, from Latin siccāre.

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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
2. (reflexive) to dry up, run dry
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 164:

     Para que vuelva la leche a la mujer a la cual se le ha secado, o para que aumente en la que ha disminuído, se le da a beber una tisana hecha con tres palitos de higuero, que como es árbol que tiene leche, obra eficazmente en estos casos.

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• enjugar

• “secar”, 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