securus

securus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é
Latin sē-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-der.
Proto-Italic *kʷoizā
Latin cūra
Latin securus

    From sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”). See cure.[1] Similar to Latin sine cūrā (“without care, carefree”), which led to English sinecure.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    sēcūrus (feminine sēcūra, neuter sēcūrum, comparative sēcūrior, adverb sēcūrē); first/second-declension adjective

    1. careless, negligent
    2. unconcerned, untroubled, carefree
    3. fearless
    4. free from danger, safe, secure
    5. quiet, composed, serene

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative sēcūrus sēcūra sēcūrum sēcūrī sēcūrae sēcūra
    genitive sēcūrī sēcūrae sēcūrī sēcūrōrum sēcūrārum sēcūrōrum
    dative sēcūrō sēcūrae sēcūrō sēcūrīs
    accusative sēcūrum sēcūram sēcūrum sēcūrōs sēcūrās sēcūra
    ablative sēcūrō sēcūrā sēcūrō sēcūrīs
    vocative sēcūre sēcūra sēcūrum sēcūrī sēcūrae sēcūra

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: securu, siguru, seguru, siguru
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: sicûr
      • Lombard: seghüür, sigüür, sügür
      • Piedmontese: sur
      • Romagnol: sicur
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: sûr
      • Old French: seür
        • Angevin: seür
        • Middle French: sceur (see there for further descendants)
        • Norman: seûr
        • Walloon: sûr
        • → Middle English: sure (see there for further descendants)
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *assēcūrāre (see there for further descendants)
    • Borrowings:
      • → Dutch: secuur
      • → German: sekur
      • → English: secure
      • → Proto-Brythonic: *segʉr
      • → Proto-West Germanic: *sikur (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cūra (> Derivatives > line 5 > sēcūrus)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 156

    Further reading

    • “securus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “securus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "securus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “securus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to enjoy peace of mind: quieto, tranquillo, securo animo esse
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