secans

Catalan

Adjective

secans

1. masculine plural of secà

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of secō (“cut, cleave”)

Participle

secāns (genitive secantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. cutting
2. cleaving, dividing
3. (medicine) operating, amputating
4. castrating
5. (by extension) wounding, injuring

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	secāns			secantēs	secantia
Genitive	secantis			secantium
Dative	secantī			secantibus
Accusative	secantem	secāns		secantēs secantīs	secantia
Ablative	secante secantī1			secantibus
Vocative	secāns			secantēs	secantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Polish

secans

Alternative forms

• sekans

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin secāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.kans/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkans
• Syllabification: se‧cans

Noun

secans m inan (related adjective secansowy)

1. (trigonometry) secant (in a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle)

   Hypernym: funkcja trygonometryczna

   Coordinate terms: cosecans, cosinus, cotangens, sinus, tangens

Declension

Declension of secans

	singular	plural
nominative	secans	secansy
genitive	secansa/secansu	secansów
dative	secansowi	secansom
accusative	secans	secansy
instrumental	secansem	secansami
locative	secansie	secansach
vocative	secansie	secansy

Related terms

adjective

• secansoidalny

 

adverb

• secansoidalnie

 

noun

• secansoida

 

Further reading

• secans in Polish dictionaries at PWN