secrete

Meanings

Adjective

• Separated.

Verb

• To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
• To exude or yield.
• To conceal.

Origin

• First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus ("[having been] separated").
• First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō; reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with the French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
• Alteration of secret.