securus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seːˈkuː.rus/, [s̠eːˈkuːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈku.rus/, [seˈkuːrus]

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

• sēcūrē
• sēcūritās

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: sicuru, siguru
  • Neapolitan: sicuro
  • Italian: sicuro
    • → Sabir: sicuro
  • Sicilian: sicuru
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: securu, siguru, seguru, siguru
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: sicûr
    • Lombard: seghüür, sigüür, sügür
    • Piedmontese: sur
    • Romagnol: sicur
  • Friulian: sigûr
  • Ladin: segur
  • Romansch: sigir, sagir, siir, sieir, sgür
  • Venetan: seguro (see there for further descendants)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: segur
    • Catalan: segur
  • 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)
  • Old Occitan: segur
    • Occitan: segur
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: seguro
  • Asturian: seguru
  • Leonese: seguru
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: seguro
    • Fala: seguru
    • Galician: seguro
    • Portuguese: seguro (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: seguro
    • Ladino: seguro, siguro
    • Spanish: seguro (see there for further descendants)
• Vulgar Latin:
  • *assēcūrāre (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Dutch: secuur
  • → English: secure
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *segʉr
    • Cornish: zigyr, sêgyr
    • Middle Breton: sigur
    • Middle Welsh: segur
      • Welsh: segur
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *sikur (see there for further descendants)

References

• “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’s 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