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語源 1

A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).

名詞

sept (plural septs)

1. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
   • 1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy‎, volume 2:

     The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:

     Never need you fear
     for a single thane of your sept or nation,
     young warriors or old.

2. An enclosure; a railing.

派生語

参考

• sept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

参照

• “sept”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.

動詞

sept

1. (nonstandard, rare) simple past and past participle of seep
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.

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接頭辞

sept-

1. Seven: forming words relating to seven.
2. (chemistry) Used for the digit five to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.

   ‎un- (“1”) + ‎bi- (“2”) + ‎sept- (“7”) + ‎-ium (element suffix) → ‎unbiseptium (“element 127”)

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