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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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set3 number or group of persons XIV; number or collection of things XVI. orig., in sense ‘sect’ — OF.
sette :- L.
secta SECT, but in later developments infl. by
SET1 and apprehended as ‘number set together’ (cf.
SET2); the application to things may be partly due to MLG.
gesette set or suite of things.
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