Socratos Sign in

secreto

secreto is a Latin form of secerno, meaning “separate, set apart; (secretus) secret, hidden, remote; (secreto) in private”.

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

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.18.2: Quaerit ex solo ea quae in conventu dixerat. Dicit liberius atque audacius. Eadem secreto ab aliis quaerit; reperit esse vera:

Martial, Epigrammata 10.40.2: Secreto mea Polla cum cinaedo,

Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.1149: Soror, ést quod te volo sécreto.

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.