sept

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sɛpt/    美 /sɛpt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
    — The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
  2. An enclosure; a railing.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of seep form-of,nonstandard,participle,past,rare
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept.

词形变化

septs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
septal septship subsept
相关词
Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
词源 2
On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.
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