saeta

See also: säta, sæta, and -sæta

English

Noun

saeta (plural saetas)

1. A Spanish religious song evoking strong emotion, usually sung during public processions.

Anagrams

• Aetas, at sea

Estonian

Noun

saeta

1. abessive singular of saag

Finnish

Etymology

From sakea +‎ -eta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑetɑˣ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝e̞t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑetɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧e‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): sae‧ta

Verb

saeta

1. (intransitive) to thicken, become/get thick(er) (e.g. of snowfall, smoke, darkness)

   Lumisade sakeni nopeasti ja näkyvyys huononi.

   The snowfall thickened fast and the visibility worsened.

Conjugation

Inflection of saeta (Kotus type 72*D/vanheta, k-∅ gradation)
indicative mood
present tense				perfect
person		positive	negative	person	positive	negative
1st sing.		sakenen	en sakene	1st sing.	olen saennut	en ole saennut
2nd sing.		sakenet	et sakene	2nd sing.	olet saennut	et ole saennut
3rd sing.		sakenee	ei sakene	3rd sing.	on saennut	ei ole saennut
1st plur.		sakenemme	emme sakene	1st plur.	olemme saenneet	emme ole saenneet
2nd plur.		sakenette	ette sakene	2nd plur.	olette saenneet	ette ole saenneet
3rd plur.		sakenevat	eivät sakene	3rd plur.	ovat saenneet	eivät ole saenneet
passive		saetaan	ei saeta	passive	on saettu	ei ole saettu
past tense				pluperfect
person		positive	negative	person	positive	negative
1st sing.		sakenin	en saennut	1st sing.	olin saennut	en ollut saennut
2nd sing.		sakenit	et saennut	2nd sing.	olit saennut	et ollut saennut
3rd sing.		sakeni	ei saennut	3rd sing.	oli saennut	ei ollut saennut
1st plur.		sakenimme	emme saenneet	1st plur.	olimme saenneet	emme olleet saenneet
2nd plur.		sakenitte	ette saenneet	2nd plur.	olitte saenneet	ette olleet saenneet
3rd plur.		sakenivat	eivät saenneet	3rd plur.	olivat saenneet	eivät olleet saenneet
passive		saettiin	ei saettu	passive	oli saettu	ei ollut saettu
conditional mood
present				perfect
person		positive	negative	person	positive	negative
1st sing.		sakenisin	en sakenisi	1st sing.	olisin saennut	en olisi saennut
2nd sing.		sakenisit	et sakenisi	2nd sing.	olisit saennut	et olisi saennut
3rd sing.		sakenisi	ei sakenisi	3rd sing.	olisi saennut	ei olisi saennut
1st plur.		sakenisimme	emme sakenisi	1st plur.	olisimme saenneet	emme olisi saenneet
2nd plur.		sakenisitte	ette sakenisi	2nd plur.	olisitte saenneet	ette olisi saenneet
3rd plur.		sakenisivat	eivät sakenisi	3rd plur.	olisivat saenneet	eivät olisi saenneet
passive		saettaisiin	ei saettaisi	passive	olisi saettu	ei olisi saettu
imperative mood
present				perfect
person		positive	negative	person	positive	negative
1st sing.		—	—	1st sing.	—	—
2nd sing.		sakene	älä sakene	2nd sing.	—	—
3rd sing.		saetkoon	älköön saetko	3rd sing.	olkoon saennut	älköön olko saennut
1st plur.		saetkaamme	älkäämme saetko	1st plur.	—	—
2nd plur.		saetkaa	älkää saetko	2nd plur.	—	—
3rd plur.		saetkoot	älkööt saetko	3rd plur.	olkoot saenneet	älkööt olko saenneet
passive		saettakoon	älköön saettako	passive	olkoon saettu	älköön olko saettu
potential mood
present				perfect
person		positive	negative	person	positive	negative
1st sing.		saennen	en saenne	1st sing.	lienen saennut	en liene saennut
2nd sing.		saennet	et saenne	2nd sing.	lienet saennut	et liene saennut
3rd sing.		saennee	ei saenne	3rd sing.	lienee saennut	ei liene saennut
1st plur.		saennemme	emme saenne	1st plur.	lienemme saenneet	emme liene saenneet
2nd plur.		saennette	ette saenne	2nd plur.	lienette saenneet	ette liene saenneet
3rd plur.		saennevat	eivät saenne	3rd plur.	lienevät saenneet	eivät liene saenneet
passive		saettaneen	ei saettane	passive	lienee saettu	ei liene saettu
Nominal forms
infinitives				participles
		active	passive		active	passive
1st		saeta		present	sakeneva	saettava
long 1st1		Possessive forms Person sing. plur. 1st saetakseni saetaksemme 2nd saetaksesi saetaksenne 3rd saetakseen saetaksensa		past	saennut	saettu
2nd	inessive2	saetessa	saettaessa	agent4	sakenema
		Possessive forms Person sing. plur. 1st saetessani saetessamme 2nd saetessasi saetessanne 3rd saetessaan saetessansa		negative	sakenematon
	instructive	saeten	—	1) Used only with a possessive suffix. 2) Usually with a possessive suffix (active only). 3) Some uses of the verbal noun are called the 'fourth infinitive' by certain sources (more details). 4) Usually with a possessive suffix. May not be used with all verbs, especially intransitive ones (more details). Distinct from nouns with the -ma suffix and third infinitive forms.
3rd	inessive	sakenemassa	—
	elative	sakenemasta	—
	illative	sakenemaan	—
	adessive	sakenemalla	—
	abessive	sakenematta	—
	instructive	sakeneman	saettaman
4th3	verbal noun	sakeneminen
5th1		Possessive forms Person sing. plur. 1st sakenemaisillani sakenemaisillamme 2nd sakenemaisillasi sakenemaisillanne 3rd sakenemaisillaan sakenemaisillansa

Derived terms

• sakeneminen

Further reading

• “saeta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• aseta, etsaa, saate, seata

Latin

Alternative forms

• sēta

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂it-o/eh₂-, *sh₂éyt-o/eh₂-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Compare Old High German seid (“cord”), Old Norse seior, Czech síť (“net”), Russian сеть (setʹ, “net, mesh”), Old Church Slavonic сѣть (sětĭ, “trap, snare, net”), Lithuanian sietas (“tie”), Old Prussian saytan (“belt, strap”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬈𐬙𐬎 (haetu, “dam”), and Sanskrit सेतु (sétu, “bridge, fetter, band”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsae̯.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ta]

Noun

saeta f (genitive saetae); first declension

1. a bristle, (rough) hair on an animal
2. (Late Latin) silk (the meaning of most descendants in modern languages)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	saeta	saetae
genitive	saetae	saetārum
dative	saetae	saetīs
accusative	saetam	saetās
ablative	saetā	saetīs
vocative	saeta	saetae

Derived terms

• saetacium
• saetiger
• saetōsus
• saetula / setula

New Latin derivatives

• bisētus
• brevisētis
• brevisētus
• crassisētus
• longisētus
• paucisētus
• quadrisētus
• sētiferus
• sētulōsus
• trisētus
• ūnisētus

Descendants

(Note: all listed terms derive from the variant sēta.)

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: seta, seda, sera
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: sita
  • Dalmatian: saita
  • Italian: seta

    Central Italian: seta, sete, seda

  • Neapolitan: seta, sèita
  • Sicilian: sita
  • Venetan: séda
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: sede
  • Ladin: seida, seda
  • Romansch: saida, seida, seda
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: seda, sèida
  • Ligurian: sæa, sèe, sèje, sè
  • Lombard: seda, sida
    • → Piedmontese: seda, sèida (“silk”)
  • Piedmontese: sèje, sèja, sè (“bristle”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: sèya, sèye
  • Old French: soie (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: seda
  • Occitan: seda

    Gascon: seta

    Vivaro-Alpine: sea

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: seda
  • Asturian: seda, sea
  • Extremaduran: sea
  • Leonese: seda
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: seda
    • Galician: seda
    • Portuguese: seda
  • Spanish: seda
• Borrowings:
  • → English: seta
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *sīdā (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “saeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “saeta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• seta, saeta

Etymology

From Latin sagitta (“arrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈeta/

Noun

saeta f (plural saetas)

1. arrow, crossbow bolt
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 126 (facsimile):

     Ca a Saeta llentrara aſſẏ / pellos oſſos da faz comaṗṅdi / que non lla podiȧ tirar dali

     The bolt had gotten into / the bones of his face, as I've heard, / such that they couldn't remove it.

Related terms

• saetada
• baesta, arqueiro

Descendants

• Galician: seta
• Portuguese: seta

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “saeta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “saeta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈeta/ [saˈe.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: sa‧e‧ta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sagitta.

Noun

saeta f (plural saetas)

1. arrow

   Synonym: flecha

2. dart

   Synonym: dardo

3. hand (of a clock or watch)

   Synonyms: manecilla, aguja

Related terms

• asaetear
• saetar
• saetear
• saetera
• saetero

Etymology 2

Might be the same as Etymology 1 or perhaps from Arabic.

Noun

saeta f (plural saetas)

1. (Andalusia, Semana Santa) song performed in a mournful manner in honour of images of Jesus or Virgin Mary during Holy Week processions in Southern Spain, mostly in Andalusia.

Etymology 3

Verb

saeta

1. inflection of saetar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “saeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025