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(Engels)

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

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/sɛkt/

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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.