secta

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin secta.

Noun[edit]

secta f (plural sectes)

sect

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Participle[edit]

secta

inflection of sectus:
1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle[edit]

sectā

ablative feminine singular of sectus

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from sectus (“cut off, amputated, divided”), perfect passive participle of secō, as in a distinct, separate body or group (e.g. a religious, political, or philosophical sect). See also the expression "secāre viam" ("take one's way, travel"). Another possibility is a derivation from sequor, sequī (“to follow”), past participle secutus.

Noun[edit]

secta f (genitive sectae); first declension

a trodden or beaten way, pathway, mode, manner, method, principle^[1]
a body of political principles, party, side, faction
(philosophy) a doctrine, school, sect

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	secta	sectae
Genitive	sectae	sectārum
Dative	sectae	sectīs
Accusative	sectam	sectās
Ablative	sectā	sectīs
Vocative	secta	sectae

Descendants[edit]

Catalan: secta
English: sect
French: secte
Galician: seita
Italian: setta
Portuguese: seita
Romanian: sectă
Spanish: secta

References[edit]

“secta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“secta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
secta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
secta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
- (ambiguous) to be a follower, disciple of some one: sectam alicuius sequi (Brut. 31. 120)