secret的词源

英文词源

secret: secret: [14] Etymologically, something that is secret is ‘separated’ from others, hence put out of the way, hidden. The word comes via Old French secret from Latin sēcrētus, an adjectival use of the past participle of sēcernere ‘separate’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix sē- ‘apart’ and cernere ‘separate’ (source also of English certain, discern, excrement, etc).

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, secret was used as a verb, meaning ‘hide’, but it was then altered to secrete, on the model of Latin sēcrētus. (The other verb secrete, ‘produce fluids or other substances’ [18], is a back-formation from secretion [17], which goes back to Latin sēcrētiō ‘separation’, a derivative of sēcernere.) A secretary is etymologically a ‘secret’ or confidential helper.
=> certain, decree, discern, excrement, secretary
secret (v.): "to keep secret" (described in OED as "obsolete"), 1590s, from secret (n.). Related: Secreted; secreting.
secret (n.): late 14c., from Latin secretus "set apart, withdrawn; hidden, concealed, private," past participle of secernere "to set apart, part, pide; exclude," from se- "without, apart," properly "on one's own" (see se-) + cernere "separate" (see crisis).

As an adjective from late 14c., from French secret, adjective use of noun. Open secret is from 1828. Secret agent first recorded 1715; secret service is from 1737; secret weapon is from 1936.

来源于拉丁语中由前缀se-(分离)和动词cern.ere(区分)组成的复合动词secernere(区分)的过去分词secret.us。

词根词缀： se-分离 + cret(-cern-)区分 → 与其它的信息区分开→避让→机密

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来自拉丁语 secretus,分开的，隐藏的，过去分词格于 secernere,分开，隐藏，来自 se-,分开， cernere,分开，词源同 crisis,discern,critical.后形容词过名词使用，引申诸相关词义。