secans

secans

1. masculine plural of secà

Present active participle of secō (“cut, cleave”)

secāns (genitive secantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. cutting
2. cleaving, dividing
3. (medicine) operating, amputating
4. castrating
5. (by extension) wounding, injuring

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• sekans

Learned borrowing from New Latin secāns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.kans/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkans
• Syllabification: se‧cans

secans m inan (related adjective secansowy)

1. (trigonometry) secant (in a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle)

   Hypernym: funkcja trygonometryczna

   Coordinate terms: cosecans, cosinus, cotangens, sinus, tangens

• “secans”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)