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Dutch
Etymology
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, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrince or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sekte f (plural sekten or sektes, diminutive sektetje n)
- (religion) cult (socially proscribed and often novel religious group)
- (archaic, religion) sect (split-off religious or philosophical group)
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch sekte, 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, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrince or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
séktê (plural sekte-sekte, first-person possessive sekteku, second-person possessive sektemu, third-person possessive sektenya)
- (religion) sect (split-off religious or philosophical group).
- Synonym: mazhab
- Synonym: sekta (Standard Malay)
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Middle English
Noun
sekte
- Alternative form of secte