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From Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off"), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut").
From Wiktionary
Latin resecāre resect- to cut back re- re- secāre to cut sek- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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