Etymograph

English

secability

Secability comes from Latin secabilitas, from secō ‘to cut’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sek-1‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sekaō1‘to cut’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecō2as secare‘to cut’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecabilitas2
  5. Englishtodaysecability2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin seco
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English secability

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sek-Wiktionary, Latin seco‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sekaōWiktionary, Latin seco‘to cut’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecōWiktionary, English secabilityas secare‘to cut’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecabilitasWiktionary, English secability
  5. EnglishtodaysecabilityWiktionary, English secability

Formed from -ability

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‘to cut’

saw, design, sign, ship, seal, sack, sawyer, scarlet, sax, shingle, scythe, sich, sedge, sigil, sain, desiccation, desiccant, 58 more

through Proto-Italic *sekaō ‘to cut’

homosexual, sexuality, dissection, 17 more

through Latin secō ‘to cut’

risk, sex, section, sexual, segment, insect, sickle, het, dissect, seg, brassica, 20 more

Today it means

noun The capability of being divided.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “secability”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin seco. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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