seta

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin seta, from saeta.

Noun [edit]

seta (plural setas or setae)

  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 []

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Faroese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Verb [edit]

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

  1. to set, to put

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French [edit]

Noun [edit]

seta f (plural setæ)

  1. seta

Galician [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin sagitta.

Noun [edit]

seta f (plural setas)

  1. arrow

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Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin seta, from saeta.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [ˈseː.t̪a], /ˈse.ta/, X-SAMPA: /"se.ta/
  • Hyphenation: sé‧ta

Noun [edit]

seta f (plural sete)

  1. silk

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Latin [edit]

Noun [edit]

sēta (genitive sētae); f, first declension

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

Inflection [edit]

Number Singular Plural
nominative sēta sētae
genitive sētae sētārum
dative sētae sētīs
accusative sētam sētās
ablative sētā sētīs
vocative sēta sētae

Portuguese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin sagitta.

Noun [edit]

seta f (plural setas)

  1. arrow.

Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /sêta/
  • Hyphenation: se‧ta

Noun [edit]

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

  1. sorrow, melancholy

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Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Unknown

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

seta f (plural setas)

  1. mushroom

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