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the ones i'm thinking of are spanish, french, and portuguese, but i suspect it holds for most languages with a cognate of 'cult' and/or 'sect'

they used to be the other way around in english too

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sect

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cult



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