septa

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

A septa is a priestess of a faith in the novels. Sent to the septa.

She teaches the daughters of a household as much as she performs any rite. The word septa is also, confusingly, the plural of septum in anatomy.

Definitions of septa

1nounseptaA priestess of a faith in the novels.C2
“The septa taught her needlework and very little else.”

septa is a priestess.

septum Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

A septa is a priestess of a faith in the novels. Sent to the septa.

She teaches the daughters of a household as much as she performs any rite. The word septa is also, confusingly, the plural of septum in anatomy.

1nounseptaA priestess of a faith in the novels.C2
“The septa taught her needlework and very little else.”

septa is a priestess.

septum Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA