seita
See also: seitä
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sami, compare Northern Sami sieidi, from Proto-Samic *siejtē.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seita
- sieidi (a Sami sacred place)
Declension edit
Inflection of seita (Kotus type 9*F/kala, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | seita | seidat | ||
genitive | seidan | seitojen | ||
partitive | seitaa | seitoja | ||
illative | seitaan | seitoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | seita | seidat | ||
accusative | nom. | seita | seidat | |
gen. | seidan | |||
genitive | seidan | seitojen seitainrare | ||
partitive | seitaa | seitoja | ||
inessive | seidassa | seidoissa | ||
elative | seidasta | seidoista | ||
illative | seitaan | seitoihin | ||
adessive | seidalla | seidoilla | ||
ablative | seidalta | seidoilta | ||
allative | seidalle | seidoille | ||
essive | seitana | seitoina | ||
translative | seidaksi | seidoiksi | ||
abessive | seidatta | seidoitta | ||
instructive | — | seidoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “seita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese seita, from Latin secta (“sect”), probably from sectus (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“I cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), or alternatively from sequor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seita f (plural seitas)
- (religion) sect (an offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) religious beliefs)
- Synonym: culto
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin secta (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“I cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seita f (plural seitas)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “seita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “seita” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “seita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “seita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “seita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese seita, from Latin secta (“sect”), probably from sectus (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), or alternatively from sequor.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sei‧ta
Noun edit
seita f (plural seitas)