sect

(Englisch)

1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/sɛkt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: secte

In summary

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, gild, 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.

Konzepte

Sekte

Schule

🏫

Partei

Splittergruppe

Denomination

Schulrichtung

Religionsgemeinschaft

Glaube

Glaubensgemeinschaft

Konfession

Religion

Synonyme

denomination

party

🥳

faction

group

religious sect

cult

branch

community

schism

school

🏫

Sect

school of thought

set

division

doctrine

company

class

order

creed

religious order

pair

rent

settlement

sort

species

split

subdivision

tenet

underling

separation from

persuasion

religion

religious community

subsect

kind

believers

category

church

⛪

clause

clay

clique

coterie

denominations

dogma

door

🚪

family

👪

flock

gang

gateway

herd

Übersetzungen

secte

secta

seita

sekte

setta

sekta

secta

mezhep

αίρεση

mezheb

terîqet

طائِفة

مذهب

culto

طائفة