seta

From Latin seta, from saeta.

seta (plural setas or setae or setæ)

1. A bristle or hair
2. (botany) The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

     The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches […]

• microseta
• setation

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, tase, teas

• IPA^(key): /sèꜛtá/

seta (Kana spelling セタ)

1. dog

• reyep
• reep

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛta]

seta

1. inflection of sít:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter plural passive participle

From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. Causative of *sitjaną.

seta (third person singular past indicative setti, third person plural past indicative sett, supine sett)

1. to set, to put

   seta pengar inn á kontoina - to deposit money

   seta ein prís - to fix a price

   seta í gongd - to start

   seta spor - to leave a trace

   (of the sun) to set; sólin setur - the sun is setting

   seta seg - to sit down

From Swedish skädda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsetɑ/, [ˈs̠e̞t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -etɑ
• Syllabification^(key): se‧ta

seta

1. (nautical, dated) Synonym of lokilastu.

• In contemporary Finnish Seta refers to a Finnish association that works for LGBT rights.

• setalainen

• Seat, aste, tase

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

• seeta

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese saeta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sagitta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛta̝/

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow

   Synonym: frecha

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 337:

     que seyron do dito castello os ditos tres omens e aderençaran a él por lo matar, dentro na dita vyña, e hun deles le puxara hua seta por lo matar, e quando vyra a balesta armada, que fogira por la vyña e foron pus él por llo matar, et de feyto o mataran con a dita seeta, senón Deus que o quyso gardar, e como le remesaran a dita seta, que le remesaran hua pedra e que le deran con ela ena caueça

     that the aforementioned three men left the castle and came towards him for killing him, in that vineyard, and one of them took an arrow, and when he saw the crossbow armed he ran way, but they came after him for killing him, and actually they would have killed him with that arrow if not because God wanted to protect him, and as they threw that arrow, they also threw a stone which hit him in the head

• setada

• “seeta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “seeta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “seta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “seta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Latin sēta, from saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese seda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: sé‧ta

seta f (plural sete)

1. (textiles) silk

• setola

• seta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -aste, aste, tesa

seta

1. Dated spelling of séta.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ta/, [ˈs̠eːt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ta/, [ˈsɛːt̪ä]

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

1. Alternative form of saeta ("bristle").

First-declension noun.

• “seta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• seta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• setene

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

seta n

1. definite plural of set
2. definite plural of sete

seta f

1. definite singular of sete

Inherited from Sanskrit श्वेत (śveta, “white”).

seta

1. white

• → Old Javanese: sita
  • Javanese: ꦱꦺꦠ (séta)

• Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “seta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Syllabification: se‧ta

seta f

1. Augmentative of setka

Typically refers to a 100 ml bottle or shot of vodka.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seta

1. genitive singular of set

• seta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• seta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

• Hyphenation: se‧ta

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow
   1. weapon
   2. pointing symbol
2. (Brazil) indicator (UK, Australia, New Zealand), turn signal (US), blinker (informal, US), direction indicator

   Synonyms: (Portugal) pisca-pisca, (Portugal) pisca

• flecha

• “seta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “seta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “seta” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “seta” in Dicionário Online de Português.

From English set.

a seta (third-person singular present setează, past participle setat) 1st conj.

1. (computing) to set, to configure

• (Ijekavian): sjȅta

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

• IPA^(key): /sêta/
• Hyphenation: se‧ta

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/ [ˈse.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: se‧ta
• Homophone: (Latin America) zeta

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)

   Synonyms: (Chile) callampa, champiñón, hongo

• “seta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːta/

seta n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

• (Latin script letter names) bokstav; a, be, se, de, e, eff, ge, hå, i, ji, kå, ell, emm, enn, o, pe, ku, ärr, ess, te, u, ve, dubbel-ve, ex, y, seta, å, ä, ö ^{(Category: sv:Latin letter names)}

• aset, etsa