seita

Borrowed from Sami, compare Northern Sami sieidi, from Proto-Samic *siejtē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯tɑ/, [ˈs̠e̞i̯t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eitɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sei‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): sei‧ta

seita

1. sieidi (a Sami sacred place)

• “seita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese seita, from Latin secta (“sect”), probably from sectus (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“I cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), or alternatively from sequor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsejta̝/

seita f (plural seitas)

1. (religion) sect (an offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) religious beliefs)

   Synonym: culto

• sectario
• sectarismo

From Latin secta (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“I cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsejta̝/

seita f (plural seitas)

1. share (of the plough)
2. furrow
3. row of mown grass left back by a reaper

• seitura
• seitureiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “seita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• seyta (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese seita, from Latin secta (“sect”), probably from sectus (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), or alternatively from sequor.

• Hyphenation: sei‧ta

seita f (plural seitas)

1. (religion) sect (religious movement)

   Synonyms: culto, facção

• sectário
• sectarismo
• seitoso
• seitouro