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Latin
Etymology
From secāre, secō (“to cut”) + -tiō.
Noun
sectiō f (genitive sectiōnis); third declension
- cutting off or up
- mowing
- surgery
- castration
- division, section
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sectio 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)
- sectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sectio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin