seta

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

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[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 […]

Derived terms

• microseta
• setation

Translations

bristle or hair

• Swedish: seta (sv)

stalk of a moss sporangium

• Romanian: setă (ro) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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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Finnish

Noun

seta

1. (nautical, dated) Synonym of lokilastu.

Usage notes

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

Declension

Inflection of seta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		seta	setat
genitive		setan	setojen
partitive		setaa	setoja
illative		setaan	setoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		seta	setat
accusative	nom.	seta	setat
	gen.	setan
genitive		setan	setojen setainrare
partitive		setaa	setoja
inessive		setassa	setoissa
elative		setasta	setoista
illative		setaan	setoihin
adessive		setalla	setoilla
ablative		setalta	setoilta
allative		setalle	setoille
essive		setana	setoina
translative		setaksi	setoiksi
instructive		—	setoin
abessive		setatta	setoitta
comitative		—	setoineen

Possessive forms of seta (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	setani	setamme
2nd person	setasi	setanne
3rd person	setansa

See also

• setalainen

Anagrams

• Seat, aste, tase

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

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Galician

Alternative forms

• seeta

Etymology

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

Derived terms

• setada

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 Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Italian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

1. (textiles) silk

Anagrams

• aste, tesa

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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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 set
2. definite plural of sete

seta f

1. definite singular of sete

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

seta

1. genitive singular of set

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

setas

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

Synonyms

• flecha

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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