Where does “secant” come from?

secant (Romanian) comes from French sécant, from Latin secans, from Latin secō, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.

secant (Romanian): secant

Definitions

  1. secant

Ancestry of “secant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsécantintersecting
2Latinsecanscutting; cleaving, dividing; operating,...
3Latinsecōto cut, cut off
4Proto-Indo-Europeansek-to cut, cut off, sever
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sek- →