Word Structure

WordHub has a local lexical record for “Sectionalism” with pronunciation and root analysis.

• sect

  to cut sex: gender, male or female

  Forms: sect, seg, sex

• -ion

  attached to verbs, making nouns of state, condition, or action

  Forms: ion

• -al

  of ~; like ~; having the nature of ~; the act of ~ing

  Forms: al, ial, eal

• -ism

  the doctrine, theory or system of ~; a disease caused by ~; the quality or condition of being ~; instance of being ~

  Forms: ism, ismus