preposition
sē
sē (+ ablative)
Classical[ˈseː]Ecclesiastical[ˈsɛː]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- Old Latinwith ablativewithout
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
himself, themselves
sē, sibi — in De Bello Gallico I, ch. 8
sē,
I. pron. reflex., v. sui.
sē (sēd).
1. Prep., v. sine init.—
2. Prep. insepar.
a. For sine, without; e. g. securus (= sine curā).—
b. Aside, by itself; as sepono, to lay aside.—
3. sē = semi, half; as selibra, semodius.—
4. sē = sex; as semestris.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sē
acc. and abl. of sui.
sē or sēd praep. with abl.
abl. of sui, by itself from, without, apart from : se fraude esto, XII Tabb . ap. C.—Esp., in composition, as in secedo, securus, seditio, sobrius, socors, solvo, sudus.