>I wonder you don't know that. Is not a regionalism.
>I gues everyone understand "m-a secat o durere"
>in the sense of "m-a taiat o durere". DEX does not
>show the form "to cut".
Of course it doesn't. (AFAIK, Romanian hadn't had
the seccare <sp?> verb until reflexes of it
(re?)entered the language as neologisms (secanta,
sectie, sectiune, sectionare, sector; BTW secui
doesn't mean a "cut-nail" :-). And beside all
those definitions, you have for the adjective and
the verb, there is the transitive verb with the
meaning "to cause to someone a strong emotion,
a pain;" and "to torment, torture."
Otherwise, the chief meaning is "dry." Also the
further meanings, hollow and empty, are because
of something being/becoming dry, dried up, atrophied.
As for our topic (religion), you see the locution
"de sec" meaning "pertaining to fasting" and "vinerea
seaca," Easter Friday.
>Alex
George