See sept in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "septal"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "septship"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "subsept"
}
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "saeptum",
"4": "",
"5": "fence, enclosure"
},
"expansion": "Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "septs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sept (plural septs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "63 17 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 7 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 13 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Family",
"orig": "en:Family",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 9 10",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Highland games",
"orig": "en:Highland games",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
81,
85
]
],
"ref": "1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, volume 2:",
"text": "The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
51
]
],
"ref": "1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:",
"text": "Never need you fear\nfor a single thane of your sept or nation,\nyoung warriors or old.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland."
],
"id": "en-sept-en-noun-gSqQlyf5",
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "74 26",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "septiar"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An enclosure; a railing."
],
"id": "en-sept-en-noun-fJYH~3Uo",
"links": [
[
"enclosure",
"enclosure"
],
[
"railing",
"railing"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɛpt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sept.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛpt"
}
],
"word": "sept"
}
{
"etymology_number": "2",
"etymology_text": "On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "sept",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept."
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "seep"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past and past participle of seep"
],
"id": "en-sept-en-verb-KJE0YV6Q",
"links": [
[
"seep",
"seep#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonstandard, rare) simple past and past participle of seep"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"nonstandard",
"participle",
"past",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɛpt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sept.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛpt"
}
],
"word": "sept"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛpt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛpt/1 syllable",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss",
"en:Family",
"en:Highland games"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "septal"
},
{
"word": "septship"
},
{
"word": "subsept"
}
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "saeptum",
"4": "",
"5": "fence, enclosure"
},
"expansion": "Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "septs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sept (plural septs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
81,
85
]
],
"ref": "1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, volume 2:",
"text": "The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
51
]
],
"ref": "1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54:",
"text": "Never need you fear\nfor a single thane of your sept or nation,\nyoung warriors or old.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An enclosure; a railing."
],
"links": [
[
"enclosure",
"enclosure"
],
[
"railing",
"railing"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɛpt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sept.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛpt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "septiar"
}
],
"word": "sept"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛpt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛpt/1 syllable",
"en:Family",
"en:Highland games"
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"etymology_text": "On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "sept",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English nonstandard terms",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:sept."
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "seep"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past and past participle of seep"
],
"links": [
[
"seep",
"seep#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonstandard, rare) simple past and past participle of seep"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"nonstandard",
"participle",
"past",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɛpt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sept.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-sept.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛpt"
}
],
"word": "sept"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sept meaning in English (3.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.