secret

Etymology 1
The noun is from, from. ..

The verb is from the noun.

Noun

 * 1)  A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
 * 2) * May 1, 1750, , The Rambler No. 13
 * To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery
 * 1) The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
 * The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise.
 * 1) Something not understood or known.
 * 2)  Private seclusion.
 * 3)  The genital organs.
 * 4)  A form of steel skullcap.
 * 5)   Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
 * 1) Something not understood or known.
 * 2)  Private seclusion.
 * 3)  The genital organs.
 * 4)  A form of steel skullcap.
 * 5)   Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
 * 1)  A form of steel skullcap.
 * 2)   Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: A@Mouth-ThumbBack Contact
 * Amharic: ምስጢር
 * Arabic:, خَفِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: secretu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: сер
 * Basque: sekretu
 * Belarusian: таямні́ца, та́йна, сакрэ́т
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: къайле
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 秘密
 * Dungan: бими
 * Hokkien: 秘密
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: sır
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: saladus
 * Finnish:, , salatieto
 * French:
 * Middle French: secret
 * Old French: secret
 * Friulian: segret, secret
 * Galician: segredo
 * Georgian: საიდუმლო
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: isertugaq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: likum
 * Hindi:, राज़, , , सीकरेट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: къайле
 * Interlingua: secreto
 * Irish:, scéal rúin
 * Old Irish: rún
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: нууц
 * Kazakh: құпия,
 * Khakas: чазыт
 * Khmer: ការសម្ងាត់
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄວາມລັບ
 * Latgalian: paslāpums
 * Latin: opertum, sēcrētum, arcānum, mystērium, abscōnsum
 * Latvian: noslēpums
 * Lithuanian: paslaptis
 * Luxembourgish: Geheimnis, Geheechnes
 * Macedonian: тајна
 * Malay:, sir
 * Maltese: sigriet
 * Manx: folliaght
 * Maore Comorian: siri
 * Maori: muna
 * Marathi: गुपित
 * Mingrelian: სალამუსო
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, løyndom
 * Nynorsk: løyndom, hemmelegheit
 * Old East Slavic: таина
 * Old English: dēagolnes
 * Old Norse: rún, leynd
 * Oromo: iccitii
 * Ottoman Turkish: سر
 * Pashto:, , نوز
 * Persian:, ,
 * Pitcairn-Norfolk: siikret
 * Plautdietsch: Jeheemniss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: пя̄ҋҋт
 * Scottish Gaelic: rùn, cagar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: та̑јна
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: sicritu,
 * Slovak: tajomstvo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikreto, lihim
 * Tajik: роз‍,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གསང་བ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: syr
 * Tuvan: чажыт
 * Ukrainian:, секре́т, таїна́
 * Urdu:, رہسیہ, راز
 * Uyghur: سىر
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: secreto
 * Vietnamese: (祕密),  (條祕密)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Wutunhua: sangwa
 * Yakut: кистэлэҥ
 * Yiddish: סוד, סאָד
 * Zhuang: mimiz


 * Latin: sēcrēta

Verb

 * 1)  To make or keep secret.
 * 2) * 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, | Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
 * [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
 * 1) * 1986, | InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
 * Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
 * 1) * 1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, | Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
 * To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
 * 1)  To hide secretly.
 * He was so scared for his safety he secreted arms around the house.

Usage notes

 * All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage as part of the idiom "secret [something] away".
 * The present participle and past forms and  are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from ptp of , from , from. .

Adjective

 * 1) Being or kept hidden.
 * 2)  Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
 * 3)  Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
 * 4)  Separate; distinct.
 * 1)  Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
 * 2)  Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
 * 3)  Separate; distinct.
 * 1)  Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
 * 2)  Separate; distinct.
 * 1)  Separate; distinct.
 * 1)  Separate; distinct.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:hidden and Thesaurus:covert

Translations

 * Afrikaans: geheime
 * American Sign Language: A@Mouth-ThumbBack Contact
 * Arabic: سِرِّيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: secretu
 * Azerbaijani:, , , gizlin
 * Bashkir: йәшерен
 * Basque: sekretu
 * Belarusian: тае́мны, патае́мны,, сакрэ́тны
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 秘密的
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: kripta, sekreta
 * Finnish:, , sala-, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: segret, secret
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საიდუმლო
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λαθραῖος
 * Hebrew: סודי
 * Hiligaynon: likum
 * Hindi:, रहस्यमय, छुपा,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: secrete
 * Irish: rúnda
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khakas: чабых, чазыт, чазыттығ
 * Korean: 비밀(秘密)-의
 * Ladin: sucrët
 * Latin: arcānus, sēcrētus
 * Lithuanian: slaptas, slapta
 * Luxembourgish: geheim, heemlech
 * Macedonian: таен
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: രഹസ്യമായ
 * Marathi: गुप्त
 * Norman: s'gret
 * Norwegian:, skjult
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: dēagol
 * Old Norse: leyniligr
 * Ottoman Turkish: كیزلو, صاقلو
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: heemlich
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, secretă, , tainică
 * Romansch: secret, sacret
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: пя̄ҋҋт
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair, prìobhaideach, uaigneach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: та̑јнӣ, скро̀вит
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, tajen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikreto, lihim, ,
 * Tatar: серле
 * Telugu: రహస్య
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan: чажыт
 * Ukrainian: тає́мний, потайни́й, секре́тний
 * Venetian: segreto, segret, secreto
 * Vietnamese: (祕密)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: geheim
 * Yakut: кистэлэҥнээх

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) secret

Noun

 * 1) secret

Etymology 1
, from, borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) secret

Etymology 2
, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) secret
 * 2) secrecy

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) secret

Etymology
,, ..

Adjective

 * , hidden