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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=la secō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsɛk.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsɛk.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''sectiō''' ''f'' (genitive sectiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|seco|-tiō|t1=to cut]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|secō]] continues [[itc-pro|*sekaō]], from [[ine-pro|*sek-|t=to cut]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Varro, in On Agriculture, uses it of the sale of goods at a public auction.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Republican Latin it was the buying up of captured or confiscated property at public auction, or the goods so sold, as in Cicero's Philippics.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Vitruvius on it was cutting, as of bodies that cannot be divided, and Lewis & Short note this general sense is post-Augustan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of mowing, Celsus of surgical cutting, and Apuleius of castration.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Gellius speaks of the cutting up of a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In medieval Latin it was haymaking, and in British sources pruning, cutting off as punishment and a surgical operation.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) English ''section'' is recorded in the late 14th century in astronomy.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of an auction.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of confiscated goods.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of cutting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''section'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Cutting, severing; mowing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Surgical cutting; castration.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # The buying of confiscated goods at auction; the goods so sold.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # Division, [[m|en|section]].^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Haymaking.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[seco|alt=secō]]
+ * [[en|section]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}