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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la secō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''sector''' ''m'' (genitive sectōris, feminine sectrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|seco|-tor|t1=to cut]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus uses ''sector zōnārius'', a cutpurse, of a man looking around suspiciously.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was one who cuts, as a mower in Columella, a guild of sawyers in an inscription, and Cicero's ''sector collōrum'', a cutthroat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From Lucilius on it was a buyer of confiscated property at public auction, who resold it.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ Late Latin used it in geometry for a section of a circle.^(Etymonline) In medieval Latin it was a haymaker.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''sector'' is recorded in geometry in the 1560s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''sector zōnārius''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a buyer at auction.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''sector collōrum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1560s – English ''sector'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A cutter, ''sector zōnārius'' a cutpurse, ''sector collōrum'' a cutthroat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A buyer of confiscated goods at auction.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Late Latin, geometry)'' A [[m|en|sector]] of a circle.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[sectōrius]]
+ * [[faenisector]]
+ * [[assector]]
+ * [[cōnsector]]
+ * [[īnsectātiō]]
+ * [[īnsectātor]]
+ * [[īnsector]]
+ * [[persector]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|sector]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ The homograph ''sector, sectārī'' is a deponent verb from [[sequor]], “to follow eagerly, attend, pursue”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}