secretar

From Latin sēcrētum, supine of sēcernō (“separate, disjoin”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.kɾəˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.kɾeˈtaɾ]

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secretí, past participle secretat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. to secrete

• secreció

• “secretar”, 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
• “secretar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “secretar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “secretar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧tar

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secretei, past participle secretado)

1. (physiology) to secrete (to produce and ooze a substance)

   Synonyms: excretar, segregar

• secreção

• “secretar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French secrétaire, from Medieval Latin secretarius.

secretar m (plural secretari)

1. secretary

From Latin secrētum, supine of sēcernō (“separate, disjoin”).

• IPA^(key): /sekɾeˈtaɾ/ [se.kɾeˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧cre‧tar

secretar (first-person singular present secreto, first-person singular preterite secreté, past participle secretado)

1. to secrete

• “secretar”, 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