secern

Significat (Anglès)

1. To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
2. To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
3. Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”)
4. Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.
5. To secrete a substance.

Conceptes

distingir

diferenciar

Sinònims

separate

distinguish

differentiate

tell apart

secernate

severalise

severalize

tell

disjoin

dismiss

disperse

dissociate

disunite

drop

excommunicate

expel

fire

🔥

force out

isolate

keep apart

know

mark

remove

resolve

secrete

segregate

send down

separate off

separate out

sequester

sequestrate

set apart

sunder

uncouple

break

key out

drum out

cashier

cut

decouple

descry

discriminate

disentangle

disestablish

Traduccions

distinguer

distinguere

diferenciar

فرّق

ميّز

فصل

قطع

تخلق

فرق

تخالف

استخلص

افترق

انفصل

تفرق

بوب

Amb guionet com a

se‧cern

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sɪˈsɜːn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

PIE word
*swé
Learned borrowing from Latin sēcernere, the present active infinitive of sēcernō (“to put apart, divide, separate, sever, sunder; (figuratively) to disjoin, dissociate, part; to discern, distinguish; to exclude, pull aside, set aside, reject”), from sē- (prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’) + cernō (“to divide, separate; to distinguish, sift; to perceive, see; to comprehend, discern, regard, understand; to decide”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate, sift”)).
Senses 1.3 and 2.2 (“synonym of secrete”) derive from the use of the Latin word sēcernere to translate Ancient Greek ἀποκρίνειν (apokrínein), the active infinitive participle of ἀποκρίνω (apokrínō, “to set apart, separate; to choose; to reject on inquiry; to answer, reply”).