sectio

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sectiō. Doublet of section.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕk′shē-ō
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.ʃiː.əʊ̯/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.ʃi.oʊ̯/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.ʃiː.əʉ̯/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.ʃiː.ɐʉ̯/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.ʃi.o/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.ʃiː.oː/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃiːəʊ
• Hyphenation: sec‧ti‧o

Noun

sectio (plural sectiones)

1. (anatomy) A section or cutting; a subdivision or segment.

Derived terms

• sectio alta
• sectio cadaveris
• sectio lateralis

Further reading

• “sectio”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025, retrieved 24 August 2025
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “sectio, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page n, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sectio, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5457, column 2.

Latin

Etymology

From secō (“to cut”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.t͡si.o]
• Hyphenation: sec‧ti‧ō

Noun

sectiō f (genitive sectiōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sectiō	sectiōnēs
genitive	sectiōnis	sectiōnum
dative	sectiōnī	sectiōnibus
accusative	sectiōnem	sectiōnēs
ablative	sectiōne	sectiōnibus
vocative	sectiō	sectiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: secció
• English: section
• French: section
• Galician: sección
• Italian: sezione
• Ladin: sezion
• Occitan: seccion
• Piedmontese: session
• → Portuguese: seção, secção (Portugal)
• Romanian: secție, secțiune
• Russian: се́кция (sékcija)
• 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sectio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin