secretum

See also: Secretum

English

Etymology

From Latin sēcrētum. Doublet of secret.

Noun

secretum (plural secreta)

1. A special seal used for private correspondence.
   • 1774, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, page 334:

     A personal Seal having a secretum is unusual; with armorial and monastic seals they are very common; […]

Latin

Participle

sēcrētum

1. inflection of sēcrētus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

sēcrētum n (genitive sēcrētī); second declension

1. withdrawal, loneliness, secluded place
2. secret, private matter or conversation

   in secreto, in secretum, a secreto ― secretly, discreetly, in a private manner, without witness

3. (in the plural) private life
4. (in the plural) secret documents
5. (in the plural) mystery, secret cult
6. to be mysterious, mysterious presence

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēcrētum	sēcrēta
Genitive	sēcrētī	sēcrētōrum
Dative	sēcrētō	sēcrētīs
Accusative	sēcrētum	sēcrēta
Ablative	sēcrētō	sēcrētīs
Vocative	sēcrētum	sēcrēta

References

• “secretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• secretum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• secretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti