secte
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin secta.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
secte f (plural sectes)
- sect (offshoot of a larger religion or denomination, usually and especially one with unorthodox or extreme political and/or religious beliefs)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “secte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
secte
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French secte, from Late Latin secta.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- “sect(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-28.
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
secte f (plural sectes)
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