seco

  1. (conjugation-1) to cut, cut off
  2. (conjugation-1) to cleave, divide
  3. (conjugation-1) to operate, amputate, perform surgery
  4. (conjugation-1) to castrate
  5. (broadly, conjugation-1) to wound, injure
  6. (conjugation-1, figuratively) to hurt with one's words

Opposite of
illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈsɛ.koː]
Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *sekaō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognates include Old Church Slavonic сѣщи (sěšti, “to cut, hack, chop off”) and Old English saga (English saw).

amputate

fly or cut through

to cut

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