sect
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
- A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
- A cutting; a scion.
noun
- An ancient astrological concept, a form of polarity by which heavenly bodies were designated as either diurnal or nocturnal.
Pronunciation
/sɛkt/
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Etymology
From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, guild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō.
Translations
Albanian: sekt
Arabic: فِرْقَة
Arabic: مَذْهَب
Arabic: طائِفَة
Arabic: نِحْلَة
Armenian: աղանդ
Armenian: սեկտա
Azerbaijani: məzhəb
Azerbaijani: sekta
Belarusian: сэ́кта
Belarusian: се́кта
Bengali: ফেরকা
Bengali: সম্প্রদায়
Bulgarian: се́кта
Burmese: ဂိုဏ်း
Burmese: နိကာယ
Catalan: secta
Chinese Mandarin: 宗派
Chinese Mandarin: 教派
Chinese Mandarin: 邪教
Czech: sekta
Danish: sekt
Dutch: afscheiding
Dutch: sekte
Esperanto: sekto
Estonian: sekt
Finnish: lahko
French: secte
Galician: seita
Georgian: სექტა
German: Sekte
Greek: αίρεση
Greek: σέκτα
Ancient Greek: αἵρεσις
Gujarati: પંથ
Hebrew: כַּת
Hebrew: כיתה
Hebrew: כִּתָּה
Hindi: पंथ
Hindi: मज़हब
Hindi: संप्रदाय
Hindi: निकाय
Hindi: फ़िरक़ा
Hindi: फिरका
Hungarian: szekta
Icelandic: sértrúarsöfnuður
Indonesian: sekte
Indonesian: mazhab
Interlingua: secta
Italian: setta
Japanese: 宗派
Japanese: 教派
Japanese: セクト
Japanese: カルト
Japanese: 分派
Kazakh: секта
Khmer: និកាយ
Korean: 종파
Korean: 분파
Korean: 섹트
Korean: 교파
Kumyk: мазгьап
Northern Kurdish: mezheb
Kyrgyz: секта
Lao: ນິກາຍ
Latin: cultus
Latvian: sekta
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