seta

See also: séta, sēta, sētā, setä, and seta'

English

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 […]

Translations

bristle or hair

• Swedish: seta (sv)

stalk of a moss sporangium

• Romanian: setă (ro) f

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} štětina (cs) f

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pelillo m

Anagrams

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

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Asturian

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

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Faroese

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of seta

v-24-2
infinitive	seta
present participle	setandi
past participle a5 (a39)	settur
supine	sett
number	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	all
indicative	eg	tú	hann/hon/tað	vit, tit, teir/tær/tey, tygum
present	seti	setur/ setir	setur/ setir	seta
past	setti	setti	setti	settu
imperative	–	tú	–	tit
present	—	set!	—	setið!

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French

Etymology

Borrowing 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).

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow

Synonyms

• (arrow): frecha

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

1. silk

Anagrams

• aste, tesa

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ta/

Noun

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

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

References

• seta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “seta” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• setene

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

Noun

seta f

1. Augmentative of setka

Usage notes

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

Declension

declension of seta

	singular	plural
nominative	seta	sety
genitive	sety	set
dative	secie	setom
accusative	setę	sety
instrumental	setą	setami
locative	secie	setach
vocative	seto	sety

Noun

seta

1. genitive singular of set

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Portuguese

setas

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow.

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Serbo-Croatian

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

Declension

Declension of seta

	singular	plural
nominative	sȅta	sete
genitive	sete	sȇtā
dative	seti	setama
accusative	setu	sete
vocative	seto	sete
locative	seti	setama
instrumental	setom	setama

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Spanish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)

Synonyms

• callampa f (Chile)
• champiñón m
• hongo m