different between sept vs cept

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

Latvian

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Baltic *pek- (metathesized to *kep-), from Proto-Indo-European *pek?- (“to roast, to cook”), from earlier *h?-ép-k?-, *h?p-ék?-. Karulis would rather see *pek?- as a metathesis of PIE date of a root *kep-, *k?ep- (“to smoke, to cook”), formed analogically from *tep- (“to be hot, to heat up”) on the model of *kel-, *tel- (“to build”). Cognates include Lithuanian kèpti, Old Church Slavonic ???? (pešti), ???? (pek?, 1 sg. pres.), Russian ???? (pe??), ????? (pekú), Belarusian ?????? (pjekcí), Ukrainian ????? (pe?ý), ?????? (pektý), Bulgarian ????? (peká, 1st sg. pres.), Czech péci, Polish piec, Sanskrit ???? (pácati, “to roast, to bake, to cook, to boil”), Ancient Greek ????? (péss?, “to bake, to cook, to boil”) (from *pek?ye-), Latin coqu? (“to cook, to roast, to dry”), Tocharian A, Tocharian B p?k- (“to cook, to boil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ts?pt]

Verb

cept (tr., 1st conj., pres. cepu, cep, cep, past cepu)

1. to fry (to cook in hot fat, often one side and then the other)

2. to roast, to broil, to grill, to bake (to cook, usually without fat, with heat coming equally from all sides)

Conjugation

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

See also

• v?r?t

References