seta

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta.

Noun

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. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 6

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

Anagrams

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

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. to set, to put

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

Further reading

• “seta” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

13th century. From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛta̝/

Noun

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

References

• “seeta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “seeta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “seta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “seta” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Latin sēta, from saeta. Compare Spanish and Portuguese seda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseː.t̪a], /ˈse.ta/
• Hyphenation: sé‧ta

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

1. silk

Anagrams

• aste, tesa

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ta/

Noun

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

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

References

• 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

Alternative forms

• setene

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

Noun

seta f

1. Augmentative of setka

Noun

seta

1. genitive singular of set

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: sé‧ta

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow
   1. weapon
   2. pointing symbol

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sjȅta

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/
• Homophone: zeta (non-Castilian dialects)

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)