# separo
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [səˈpa.ɾu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [səˈpa.ɾo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [seˈpa.ɾo]

### Verb

separo
* first-person singular present indicative of separar

## Galician
### Verb

separo
* first-person singular present indicative of separar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seˈpa.ro/, (less common) /ˈsɛ.pa.ro/
* Rhymes: -aro, (less common) -ɛparo
* Hyphenation: se‧pà‧ro, (less common) sè‧pa‧ro

### Verb

separo
* first-person singular present indicative of separare

### Anagrams

* Pesaro, posare, poserà, sapore

## Latin
### Etymology

From sē- (“apart”) +‎ parō (“prepare”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.pa.roː/, [ˈs̠eːpäroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.pa.ro/, [ˈsɛːpäro]

### Verb

sēparō (present infinitive sēparāre, perfect active sēparāvī, supine sēparātum); first conjugation
* to divide, separate
    Synonyms: dīvidō, discribō, sēgregō, sēcernō, findō, dirimō, exclūdō, dīvidō, intersaepiō, dīvertō, discrībō, intersaepio, secō, sēcernō, distinguō, dirimō
    Antonyms: illigō, colligō, ligō, nectō, cōnectō, coniungo
* to distinguish
    Synonyms: distinguō, sēcernō

#### Derived terms

* dissēparō

#### Descendants

Through Vulgar Latin *sēperāre:
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: severare, sevrare
* Gallo-Romance:
** Occitan: sebrar
** Old French: sevrer
*** Bourguignon: sevrai
*** French: sevrer
*** → Middle English: severen
**** English: sever
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exsēperāre
** Italo-Romance:
*** Italian: sceverare, scevrare
** Ibero-Romance:
*** Asturian: xebrar
*** Galician: xebrar
*** Old Spanish: exebrar, xebrar
Borrowings:
* → Asturian: separar, separtar
* → Bourguignon: sépairai
* → Catalan: separar
* → English: separate
* → French: séparer
* → Galician: separar
* → Italian: separare
* → Occitan: separar
* → Portuguese: separar
* → Romanian: separa
* → Sicilian: sparari
* → Spanish: separar
* → Venetan: separar

### References

* “separo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “separo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* separo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “separate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /seˈpa.ɾu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /seˈpa.ɾu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /seˈpa.ɾo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɨˈpa.ɾu/
* Hyphenation: se‧pa‧ro

### Verb

separo
* first-person singular present indicative of separar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seˈpaɾo/ [seˈpa.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: se‧pa‧ro

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from separar.

#### Noun

separo m (plural separos)
* (Mexico) solitary confinement cell

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

separo
* first-person singular present indicative of separar

### Further reading

* “separo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10