sécher
French
verb
Definitions
- (ergative) to dry
- (informal) to play truant
- (intransitive) to dry up, to run out of things to say
- to fail
Etymology
Inherited from Old French secher inherited from Latin siccāre.
Origin
Latin
siccāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- siccāre Latin
- seccare Italian
- cheveu French
- sèche-cheveux French
- séchage French
- sécheuse French
- séchoir French
- secar Spanish, Castilian
- *seyk- Proto-Indo-European
- secar Portuguese
- secher Old French
- sechier Old French
- seca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- сешоар Bulgarian
- secar Old Portuguese
- secar Occitan
- secar Asturian
- secjâ Friulian
- استشوار Hijazi Arabic
- سشوار Hijazi Arabic