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Latin
Etymology
From sect- (“cut, divided, partitioned”) (perfect passive participial stem of secō (“to cut”)) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sectilis (neuter sectile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- divided
- that may be cut into layers
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “sectilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sectilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sectilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.