secta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secta.

Noun

secta f (plural sectes)

1. sect

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Latin

Etymology 1

Participle

(deprecated template usage) secta

1. nominative feminine singular of sectus
2. nominative neuter plural of sectus
3. accusative neuter plural of sectus
4. vocative feminine singular of sectus
5. vocative neuter plural of sectus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) sectā

1. ablative feminine singular of sectus

Etymology 2

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

secta f (genitive sectae); first declension

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

Declension

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

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

References

• “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)
    

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secta.

Noun

secta f (plural sectas)

1. cult
2. sect

Related terms

• sectario m, sectaria f
• sectarismo m

See also

• culto