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7-letter words (1 found)

SECRETE,

6-letter words (7 found)

CERTES,CREESE,ERECTS,RESECT,SCREET,SECRET,TERCES,

5-letter words (18 found)

CERES,CERTS,CETES,CREES,CREST,ERECT,ESTER,REEST,RESEE,RESET,SCREE,STEER,STERE,TEERS,TERCE,TERES,TERSE,TREES,

4-letter words (20 found)

CEES,CERE,CERT,CETE,CREE,ERES,ERST,RECS,REES,REST,RETE,RETS,SECT,SEER,SERE,TECS,TEER,TEES,TREE,TRES,

3-letter words (15 found)

CEE,ERE,ERS,EST,REC,REE,RES,RET,SEC,SEE,SER,SET,TEC,TEE,TES,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 69 words from secrete according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of secrete

secrete

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sĭkrētʹ, IPA(key): /sɪˈkɹiːt/
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”).

Adjective

secrete (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Separated.
    • 1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582:
      […] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
      […]
      This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.

Etymology 2

First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“I separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.

Verb

secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

  1. (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
    Synonym: (archaic) secern
  2. (transitive, figurative) To exude or yield.
    • 1863: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)
      If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of secret.

Verb

secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

  1. (transitive) To conceal.
Usage notes
  • The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.
Translations

Adjective

secrete (comparative more secrete, superlative most secrete)

  1. Archaic form of secret.
    a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)

References

  • “†seˈcrete, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) (adjective)
  • OED (second edition), “secrete, v.” (verb and figurative senses)

Anagrams

  • Treeces

Italian

Adjective

secrete

  1. feminine plural of secreto

Participle

secrete f pl

  1. feminine plural of secreto

Anagrams

  • cretese, escrete

Latin

Etymology 1

From the perfect passive participle sēcrētus (“sundered, secluded, hidden”) +‎ -ē.

Alternative forms

  • sēcrētō

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seːˈkreː.teː/, [s̠eːˈkreːt̪eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkre.te/, [seˈkrɛːt̪e]

Adverb

sēcrētē (comparative sēcrētius, superlative sēcrētissimē)

  1. secretly, in secret, privately

Etymology 2

Inflection of perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“separate; part; reject”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seːˈkreː.te/, [s̠eːˈkreːt̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkre.te/, [seˈkrɛːt̪e]

Participle

sēcrēte

  1. vocative masculine singular of sēcrētus

References

  • “secrete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • secrete in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
  • Hyphenation: se‧cre‧te

Verb

secrete

  1. inflection of secretar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈkɾete/ [seˈkɾe.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: se‧cre‧te

Verb

secrete

  1. inflection of secretar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org