English
secretable
From secrete + -able.
Formed from secrete + -able
Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’
Proto-Italic *krinō ‘to sift, separate’
Latin cernō ‘to see, to discern’
Latin sēcernō ‘to separate’
Latin sēcrētus ‘put apart, sundered, severed, separated,…’
English secrete
Today it means
adj That may be secreted
Sources
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Etymograph / secretable