English
sectile
Sectile comes from Latin sectilis ‘divided’, and goes back to sectus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsectus‘cut, divided, partitioned’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsectilis‘divided’
- Englishearliest quotation 1850sectile
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsectus‘cut, divided, partitioned’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsectilis‘divided’
- Englishearliest quotation 1850sectile
Earliest quotation: 1850, Robert Wight, Illustrations of Indian Botany: “a fruit consisting of an exterior pulpy or fleshy…”
Every English word from Latin sectus
Today it means
adj Capable of being cut; easily cut.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sectus / sectile