sept

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sɛpt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛpt

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

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^[1], volume 2:

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

2. An enclosure; a railing.

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

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

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

sept

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

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, STEP, TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, spet, step, step-

Inherited from Middle French sept, from Old French set, from Latin septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /sɛt/
• (Meridional) IPA^(key): /sɛtə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /saɛ̯t/
• (archaic, before a consonant or aspirate h) IPA^(key): /sɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Homophones: cet, cette, set, Sète

sept (invariable)

1. seven

• Louisiana Creole: sèt

• “sept”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pets

From Old French set.

• IPA^(key): (in isolation or before a vowel) /sɛt/, (before a consonant) /sɛ/

sept (invariable)

1. seven

• French: sept

• saept (Guernsey)

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

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sept

1. (Jersey) seven

• dgiêx-sept (“seventeen”)

Borrowed from French septum, itself a borrowing from Latin saeptum.

• IPA^(key): /sept/

sept n (plural septuri)

1. (anatomy) septum

• “sept”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025