You can picture secrete as setting one thing apart from the rest. A takes a little of what is in the blood, separates it out, and sends it where it is needed — that is the biological use. The other use, hiding something, can be held with the same picture: you take one thing out of the shared, visible world and set it apart where nobody looks. Useful as a memory hook, but the two uses reached modern English by different , and the picture is not a claim that one grew out of the other.
From the word’s history
The packet's source traces the biological verb to Latin secretus, the participle of secerno, to separate, reinforced by a back-formation from secretion. The hiding verb is given separately as an alteration of secret.
來源把「分泌」的 secrete 追到拉丁文 sēcrētus，也就是動詞 sēcernō（分開）的分詞，並說它有一部分是從名詞 secretion 逆推回來的。至於「藏匿」的 secrete，來源另外標明它是 secret 的改寫。所以這是兩條路，不是一條。
Wiktionary 'secrete' etymologies 2 and 3 supplied in this packet (source_refs kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:333400141 and :333414913)
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
secreteadj詞源 1/sɪˈkɹiːt/
- 1
obsoleterareSeparated; discrete.
- […] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter. […] This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.
secreteverb詞源 2/sɪˈkɹiːt/
- 1
medicinephysiologysciencesTo extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
- Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
- 2
To exude or yield.
- If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
- Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
secreteverb詞源 3/sɪˈkɹiːt/
- 1
To conceal.
- With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.
- Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete, and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。