secta

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin secta.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛk.tə]
IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsɛk.ta]

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)