separately

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin sēparātusder.

Middle English separat

English separate

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English separately

From separate + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/, /ˈsɛp.ɚ.li/

• Audio (US):

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsep.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate‧ly

Adverb

separately (not comparable)

1. In a separate manner; not together; apart.

   We've been living separately for three years.

   Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.

   • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:

     Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

Synonyms

• sunderling

Translations

in a separate manner

• Armenian: առանձին (hy) (aṙanjin)
• Belarusian: асобна (asóbna)
• Bulgarian: отделно (bg) (otdelno)
• Catalan: separadament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分別 / 分别 (zh) (fēnbié), 單獨 / 单独 (zh) (dāndú), 分開 / 分开 (zh) (fēnkāi)

• Crimean Tatar: ayrı
• Esperanto: aparte
• Finnish: erillään (fi)
• French: séparément (fr)
• Galician: separadamente (gl)
• Georgian: ცალ-ცალკე (cal-calḳe), განცალკევებით (gancalḳevebit)
• German: getrennt (de)
• Greek: χωριστά (el) (choristá)

  Ancient Greek: ἀμφίς (amphís)

• Hindi: अलग (hi) (alag), अलग अलग (alag alag)
• Hungarian: külön (hu)
• Irish: ar leith
• Italian: distintamente (it), separatemente, separatamente (it), singolarmente (it), disunitamente (it)
• Japanese: 別々に (ja) (べつべつに, betsubetsu ni)
• Latin: seorsum, sēparātim, sēiunctim
• Ngarrindjeri: kingung
• Norwegian: særskilt
• Polish: oddzielnie (pl), osobno (pl)
• Portuguese: separadamente (pt)
• Russian: отде́льно (ru) (otdélʹno), врознь (ru) (vroznʹ), врозь (ru) (vrozʹ), разде́льно (ru) (razdélʹno)
• Scottish Gaelic: air leth
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посебно

  Latin: posebno (sh)

• Spanish: separadamente (es)
• Tocharian B: waiptār
• Turkish: ayrı ayrı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: باشقه باشقه (başka başka)

• Ukrainian: окремо (okremo)
• Urdu: الگ (alag), الگ الگ (alag alag)
• Welsh: ar wahân (cy)