different between clan vs sept

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

clan (plural clans)

1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

   Coordinate term: lineage

   Hyponym: descent group

2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

4. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
5. A badger colony.

Derived terms

• clannish
• matriclan
• patriclan

Descendants

• ? Catalan: clan
• ? Dutch: clan
• ? French: clan
• ? Galician: clan
• ? German: Clan
• ? Italian: clan
• ? Portuguese: clan, clã
• ? Spanish: clan

Translations

Anagrams

• Lanc, NLCA, NaCl

Catalan

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /kl?n/
• Hyphenation: clan
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)

1. clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
2. (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: clan
• ? Indonesian: klan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, Scottish Gaelic clann, ultimately from Latin planta, and therefore a doublet of plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??/

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Further reading

• “clan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Synonyms

• (clan): tribo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan.

Noun

clan m (invariable)

1. clan
2. team
3. gang

Portuguese

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. Alternative spelling of clã

Romanian

Etymology

From French clan.

Noun

clan n (plural clanuri)

1. clan

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan. Doublet of planta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klan/, [?klãn]

Noun

clan m (plural clanes)

1. clan

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

sept (plural septs)

1. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland).
2. An enclosure; a railing.

See also

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

References

• sept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Probably influenced by weep ? wept.

Verb

sept

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

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• (archaic, before a consonant or aspirate h) IPA^(key): /s?/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophones: cet, cette

Numeral

sept

1. seven

Derived terms

• cinq à sept
• cent sept ans
• rugby à sept
• sept cents
• sept péchés capitaux
• septième

See also

Further reading

• “sept” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pets

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (in isolation or before a vowel) /s?t/, (before a consonant) /s?/

Numeral

sept (invariable)

1. seven

Descendants

• French: sept

Norman

Alternative forms

• saept (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Pronunciation

Numeral

sept

1. (Jersey) seven

Derived terms

• dgiêx-sept (“seventeen”)

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sept]

Noun

sept n (plural septuri)

1. (anatomy) septum

Declension