secte
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin secta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛkt/
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Noun
secte f (plural sectes)
- sect (religious movement)
Derived terms
- sectaire
Further reading
- “secte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ceste
Latin
Participle
secte
- vocative masculine singular of sectus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- sect, sekt, sekte
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French secte, from Late Latin secta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛkt(ə)/
Noun
secte (plural sectes)
- A variety or sort; a category with a distinguishing feature.
- A religion or religious organisation (usually not referring to Christianity)
- A division within a religion (either doctrinal or administrative)
- A sect; a smaller offshoot of a religion with unorthodox belief.
- People who behave or think in a specified manner (either as a group or in general).
- A school of philosophical or medical thought.
- (rare) One's physical composition or existence.
Descendants
- English: sect
- Scots: sect, seck
References
- “sect(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-28.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French secte, from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrince or sect, etc.”), possibly from Latin sequor, sequī (“follow”).
Noun
secte f (plural sectes)
- (Jersey) sect