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secure
English
Alternative forms
- secuer (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin securus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from se- (“without”) + cura (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??kj??(?)/, /s??kj??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??kj??/, /s??kj?/, /s??kj??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Hyphenation: se?cure
Adjective
secure (comparative securer or more secure, superlative securest or most secure)
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
- (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
Antonyms
- insecure
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- securely
Related terms
- security
Translations
Verb
secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
- to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
- 1831, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- to secure an estate
- 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.
Derived terms
- securement
Translations
Further reading
- secure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- secure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Creuse, Rescue, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer
Italian
Adjective
secure
- feminine plural of securo
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se?ku?.re/, [s???ku???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]
Noun
sec?re
- ablative singular of sec?ris
Etymology 2
securus +? -?
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se??ku?.re?/, [s?e??ku??e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?ku.re/, [s??ku???]
Adverb
s?c?r? (comparative s?c?rius, superlative s?c?rissim?)
- carelessly
- fearlessly
- quietly
References
- secure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- secure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Alternative forms
- s?cure (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin sec?ris, sec?rem. Compare Italian scure.
Noun
secure f (plural securi)
- axe, hatchet
- battle axe, halberd
Declension
Synonyms
- topor
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cultivate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cultiv?tus, perfect passive participle of cultiv? (“till, cultivate”), from cult?vus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quel?, from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (pél?) and Sanskrit ???? (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-?nus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?lt?ve?t/
- Hyphenation: cul?ti?vate
Verb
cultivate (third-person singular simple present cultivates, present participle cultivating, simple past and past participle cultivated)
- To grow plants, notably crops.
- (figuratively) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
- To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
Derived terms
Translations
Interlingua
Participle
cultivate
- past participle of cultivar
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