"secret" in seven languages

Meaningsecret

Spanish

secreto

/seˈkɾeto/

masc.learned

French

secret

/səkʁɛ/

masc.learned

Italian

segreto

/seˈgreto/

masc.inherited

Portuguese

segredo

/seˈɡɾedu/

masc.inherited

Portuguese voices Latin c and t inside the word: SĒCRĒTUM → segredo.

Romanian

secret

/seˈkret/

neut.learned

Catalan

secret

/səˈkɾet/

masc.learned

English

secret

/ˈsikɹɪt/

from Latin/French · Old French secret, from Latin

English → ItaliansecretsegretoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

SĒCRĒTUM‘something set apart (SĒCERNERE 'to separate')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

A secret is something 'set apart'. A secretary was first the person trusted with secrets — secretario, secrétaire, segretario.

English relatives: secretary, secrete, secretion