- intersect
- intersect: see section
- intersect (v.)
- 1610s, back-formation from intersection, or else from Latin intersectus, past participle of intersecare "intersect, cut asunder," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + secare "to cut" (see section (n.)). Related: Intersected; intersecting.
- intersect (n.)
- 1650s, from Latin intersectum (see intersect (v.)).