secta
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
secta f (plural sectes)
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Participle edit
secta
- inflection of sectus:
Participle edit
sectā
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
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)
- (ambiguous) a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
secta f (plural sectas)
Related terms edit
- sectario m, sectaria f
- sectarismo m
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “secta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014