Latin

Noun

sectiō f ‎(genitive sectiōnis); third declension

1. cutting off or up
2. mowing
3. surgery
4. castration
5. division, section

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: section
• French: section
• Italian: sezione
• Portuguese: (EU) secção, (BR) seção
• Russian: секция ‎(sekcija)
• Spanish: sección

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sectio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• sectio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin