secum

Latin

Etymology

From sē +‎ -cum (“with”).

Adverb

sēcum (not comparable)

1. with him-/her-/itself or themselves
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.74:

     Nunc mediā Aenēān sēcum per moenia dūcit, [...].

     Now [Dido] leads Aeneas with her, in the midst [of and all] throughout the fortifications [of Carthage], [...].
     (Dido and Aeneas begin to be seen together more often in public.)

   Duxit secum virginem.

   He led the girl with himself.

   Pompeius a me petiit ut secum, et apud se quotidie essem.

   Pompeius requested me to be with him and at his house every day.

   Filium perduxere illuc secum, ut una esset, meum.

   They took my son along with them in their company thither.

   Amœnitates omnium Venerum atque venustatum is secum adfert.

   He brings all kinds of pleasures with him.

Descendants

• Asturian: sigo
• Emilian: sêg
• Italian: seco
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sigo
  • Galician: consigo
  • Portuguese: consigo (com + sigo)
• Old Spanish: sigo
  • Spanish: consigo (con + sigo)

References

• “secum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “secum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• secum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) circumstances demand: tempus (ita) fert (not secum)
    
  • (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: secum (cum animo) reputare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: considerare in, cum animo, secum aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: secum pugnare (without sibi); sibi repugnare (of things)
    
  • (ambiguous) to live to oneself: secum vivere