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secret
secret /seˈkret/
noun#408 most common
Also: confidential matter, something hidden
Example sentences
Acesta este un secret.
This is a secret.
Nu spune nimănui secretul meu.
Don't tell anyone my secret.
Ea a păstrat secretul timp de mulți ani.
She kept the secret for many years.
Copiii au descoperit secretul ascuns în pod.
The children discovered the secret hidden in the attic.
Guvernul a refuzat să dezvăluie secretele de stat.
The government refused to reveal the state secrets.
Istoricul a scos la lumină secrete pe care nimeni nu îndrăznise să le rostească.
The historian brought to light secrets that no one had dared to utter.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | secret | secrete |
| Genitive | secretului | secretelor |
| Accusative | secretul | secretele |
| Vocative | secretule | secretelor |
Word family
secret/secretăsecret, confidential
secretos/secretoasăsecretive, given to keeping secrets
a secretizato classify, to keep something secret
secretar/secretarăsecretary
secrețiesecretion (biological sense, same root)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "secret" from French and Latin during the nineteenth-century push to re-Latinize the language. It traces to Latin secretus, the past participle of secernere, meaning to separate or set apart. That verb combines se- (apart) with cernere (to sift, to distinguish), so the original sense was something set apart from common knowledge.
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