Word.ws English Dictionary

secretum

secretum noun: a special seal used for private correspondence.

Noun

secretum (plural secreta)

  1. A special seal used for private correspondence.
    • A personal Seal having a secretum is unusual; with armorial and monastic seals they are very common; […]1774, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, page 334

Proper noun capitalized: Secretum

the Secretum

  1. (historical) A section of the British Museum created in 1865 to store those historical items deemed obscene.

Forms of secretum

pluralsecreta

Origin of secretum

From Latin sēcrētum. Doublet of secret.

Questions about secretum

What does secretum mean?
Secretum means a special seal used for private correspondence.
What part of speech is secretum?
Secretum can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of secretum?
The plural of secretum is secreta.

Words near secretum in the dictionary

  1. secrets
  2. secrets of Polichinelle
  3. secrette
  4. secretted
  5. secretting
  6. secretum
  7. Secrist
  8. Secrists
  9. secrotome
  10. secs
  11. secs.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: secretum (page history and authors); Secretum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “secretum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/secretum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.