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secreta

secreta is a Latin form of secerno, meaning “separate, set apart; (secretus) secret, hidden, remote; (secreto) in private”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter.

It can also be a form of secretum, “secret; secluded place, privacy”.

Found 186 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.3: qui rogo impositus revixisset multaque de inferis secreta narrasset haec, quae de animae immortalitate dicerentur caeloque, non somniantium philosophorum esse commenta nec fabulas incredibiles, quas Epicurei derident, sed prudentium coniecturas.

Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 805: Secreta thalami fare quo excipias modo.

All forms of secerno (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.