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IPA: /sɪˈsɜːn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /sə-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /səˈsɝn/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-secern.wav

[Southern-England] Forms: secerns [present, singular, third-person], secerning [participle, present], secerned [participle, past], secerned [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], secern [infinitive] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{l|ine-pro|*swé}} *swé, {{PIE word|en|swé}} PIE word *swé, {{root|en|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{lbor|en|la|sēcernere}} Learned borrowing from Latin sēcernere, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{m|la|sēcernō|t=to put apart, divide, separate, sever, sunder; (figuratively) to disjoin, dissociate, part; to discern, distinguish; to exclude, pull aside, set aside, reject}} sēcernō (“to put apart, divide, separate, sever, sunder; (figuratively) to disjoin, dissociate, part; to discern, distinguish; to exclude, pull aside, set aside, reject”), {{glossary|prefix}} prefix, {{m|la|sē-|pos=prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’}} sē- (prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’), {{m|la|cernō|t=to divide, separate; to distinguish, sift; to perceive, see; to comprehend, discern, regard, understand; to decide}} cernō (“to divide, separate; to distinguish, sift; to perceive, see; to comprehend, discern, regard, understand; to decide”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*krey-|t=to divide, separate, sift}} Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate, sift”), {{m|la||sēcernere}} sēcernere, {{noncog|grc|ἀποκρίνειν}} Ancient Greek ἀποκρίνειν (apokrínein), {{glossary|participle}} participle, {{m|grc|ἀποκρίνω|t=to set apart, separate; to choose; to reject on inquiry; to answer, reply}} ἀποκρίνω (apokrínō, “to set apart, separate; to choose; to reject on inquiry; to answer, reply”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} secern (third-person singular simple present secerns, present participle secerning, simple past and past participle secerned) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1}}

Inflected forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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        {
          "ref": "1657, William Morice, “Diatribe. Sect[ion] III.”, in Cœna quasi Κοινη [Koine]: The Common Right to the Lords Supper Asserted in a Diatribe & Defence thereof, […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[obert] Norton for Richard Royston […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 225",
          "text": "'[T]is not ſo much a local and bodily ſecerning our ſelves from evil men that God requires (as the Donatiſts falſely taught) but a ſpiritual ſeparation in mind and affections, and from their ſins, more than from their perſons.",
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          "ref": "1907 October, Max Beerbohm, “‘A Morris for May-Day’”, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, volume CXV, number DCLXXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 792, column 2",
          "text": "Often a prize would be awarded to some one dancer who had excelled his fellows. There were, I suppose, \"born\" Morris-dancers. Now and again one of them, flushed with triumph, would secern himself from his troupe, and would \"star\" round the country for his livelihood.",
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          "ref": "1734, William Stukeley, “Part II”, in Of the Gout; […], London, Dublin: […] Theo. Jones […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 25",
          "text": "[T]he joint-glands themſelves grovv rigid, and ſecern leſs of their proper humour. Hence vvhen the gout falls upon people in years, it proves very ſevere, for vvant of a neceſſary quantity of that oleaginous matter to extinguiſh it.",
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          "sense": "of a person or thing: to become separated from others",
          "word": "erkaantua"
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      "form": "secerning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "secerned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "secerned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "secern",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "secern (third-person singular simple present secerns, present participle secerning, simple past and past participle secerned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "se‧cern"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "old": "1"
      },
      "name": "en-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "concern"
    },
    {
      "word": "discern"
    },
    {
      "word": "secernate"
    },
    {
      "word": "secernent"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1657, William Morice, “Diatribe. Sect[ion] III.”, in Cœna quasi Κοινη [Koine]: The Common Right to the Lords Supper Asserted in a Diatribe & Defence thereof, […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[obert] Norton for Richard Royston […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 225",
          "text": "'[T]is not ſo much a local and bodily ſecerning our ſelves from evil men that God requires (as the Donatiſts falſely taught) but a ſpiritual ſeparation in mind and affections, and from their ſins, more than from their perſons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 October, Max Beerbohm, “‘A Morris for May-Day’”, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, volume CXV, number DCLXXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 792, column 2",
          "text": "Often a prize would be awarded to some one dancer who had excelled his fellows. There were, I suppose, \"born\" Morris-dancers. Now and again one of them, flushed with triumph, would secern himself from his troupe, and would \"star\" round the country for his livelihood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "separate",
          "separate#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "set apart",
          "set apart"
        ],
        [
          "persons",
          "person#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(archaic) To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "set apart"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "literary",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mind",
          "mind#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "discriminate",
          "discriminate#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "distinguish",
          "distinguish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(by extension) To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "differentiate"
        },
        {
          "word": "discern"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "literary",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Physiology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1734, William Stukeley, “Part II”, in Of the Gout; […], London, Dublin: […] Theo. Jones […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 25",
          "text": "[T]he joint-glands themſelves grovv rigid, and ſecern leſs of their proper humour. Hence vvhen the gout falls upon people in years, it proves very ſevere, for vvant of a neceſſary quantity of that oleaginous matter to extinguiſh it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ],
        [
          "secrete",
          "secrete#English"
        ],
        [
          "extract",
          "extract#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "blood",
          "blood#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "excretion",
          "excretion"
        ],
        [
          "fulfil",
          "fulfil"
        ],
        [
          "physiological",
          "physiological"
        ],
        [
          "function",
          "function#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(physiology, archaic) Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "(“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”)",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "secrete"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "literary",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "physiology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a person or thing: to become separated from others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "separated",
          "separated#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "Of a person or thing: to become separated from others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "en:Physiology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To secrete a substance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "(physiology, rare) To secrete a substance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "literary",
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "physiology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪˈsɜːn/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sə-/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/səˈsɝn/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)n"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a person or thing: to become separated from others",
      "word": "erkaantua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a person or thing: to become separated from others",
      "word": "erota"
    }
  ],
  "word": "secern"
}

"secern" meaning in All languages combined

Verb [English]

Inflected forms