cult (religious or ideological group practicing strict internal control and/or dissociation from society) · sect (religious subgroup)
çekim: çoğul Sekten · tamlayan Sekten
köken: From Middle High German secte, from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, faction”), possibly from Latin sequī (“to follow”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese seita, from Latin secta (“sect”), probably from sectus (“cut off”), perfect passive participle of secō (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”), or alternatively from sequor.
a cult (group with unorthodox beliefs and strong internal cohesion (and often some degree of separation from the outside world), regardless of origin) · a sect (of a larger religion)
sect (offshoot of a larger religion sharing at least some unorthodox beliefs) · cult (group of people with a sect-like religious identity but exploitative or regarded by outsiders as exploitative towards its members) · order
çekim: çoğul lahkot · tamlayan lahkon
köken: Partly from Proto-Finnic *lahko (compare Estonian lahk, Livonian lǭ’gõ, Veps lahk), borrowed either from Proto-Germanic *slagiz or Proto-Germanic *slahō. The original sense inherited from Finnic is “split log”, which is found only in some eastern Finnish dialects in the form laahko. Partly borrowed from Old Swedish lagh (compare Swedish lag (“a workgroup, a team”)); the meaning “combine (of…