intersect (v.) Look up intersect at Dictionary.com
1610s (trans.), 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.)). Intransitive sense is from 1847. Related: Intersected; intersecting.
intersect (n.) Look up intersect at Dictionary.com
"point of intersection," 1850, from intersect (v.) or from Latin intersectum, neuter past pasticiple of intersecare. Earlier (1650s) it was used for "an insect."