zeta
English[edit]
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→ eta | |
Wikipedia article on zeta |
Etymology[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta). Doublet of zed.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈziː.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzeɪtə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːtə, -eɪtə
Noun[edit]
zeta (plural zetas)
- The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w))
- (mathematics) A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.
- Zeta of 3 is irrational
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Noun[edit]
zeta f (plural zetes)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
- zeta (Greek letter)
Basque[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eta
- Hyphenation: ze‧ta
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
zeta inan
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
- zeta (Greek letter)
Declension[edit]
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | zeta | zeta | zetak |
ergative | zetak | zetak | zetek |
dative | zetari | zetari | zetei |
genitive | zetaren | zetaren | zeten |
comitative | zetarekin | zetarekin | zetekin |
causative | zetarengatik | zetarengatik | zetengatik |
benefactive | zetarentzat | zetarentzat | zetentzat |
instrumental | zetaz | zetaz | zetez |
inessive | zetatan | zetan | zetetan |
locative | zetatako | zetako | zetetako |
allative | zetatara | zetara | zetetara |
terminative | zetataraino | zetaraino | zetetaraino |
directive | zetatarantz | zetarantz | zetetarantz |
destinative | zetatarako | zetarako | zetetarako |
ablative | zetatatik | zetatik | zetetatik |
partitive | zetarik | — | — |
prolative | zetatzat | — | — |
See also[edit]
- (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Latin saeta (“bristle, silk”).
Noun[edit]
zeta inan
Declension[edit]
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | zeta | zeta | zetak |
ergative | zetak | zetak | zetek |
dative | zetari | zetari | zetei |
genitive | zetaren | zetaren | zeten |
comitative | zetarekin | zetarekin | zetekin |
causative | zetarengatik | zetarengatik | zetengatik |
benefactive | zetarentzat | zetarentzat | zetentzat |
instrumental | zetaz | zetaz | zetez |
inessive | zetatan | zetan | zetetan |
locative | zetatako | zetako | zetetako |
allative | zetatara | zetara | zetetara |
terminative | zetataraino | zetaraino | zetetaraino |
directive | zetatarantz | zetarantz | zetetarantz |
destinative | zetatarako | zetarako | zetetarako |
ablative | zetatatik | zetatik | zetetatik |
partitive | zetarik | — | — |
prolative | zetatzat | — | — |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- "zeta" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
- “zeta” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
zeta f (plural zetes)
Further reading[edit]
- “zeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “zeta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “zeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “zeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈtsetɑ/, [ˈts̠e̞t̪ɑ̝]
- IPA(key): /ˈzetɑ/, [ˈze̞t̪ɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -etɑ
- Syllabification(key): ze‧ta
Noun[edit]
zeta
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of zeta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | zeta | zetat | ||
genitive | zetan | zetojen | ||
partitive | zetaa | zetoja | ||
illative | zetaan | zetoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | zeta | zetat | ||
accusative | nom. | zeta | zetat | |
gen. | zetan | |||
genitive | zetan | zetojen zetainrare | ||
partitive | zetaa | zetoja | ||
inessive | zetassa | zetoissa | ||
elative | zetasta | zetoista | ||
illative | zetaan | zetoihin | ||
adessive | zetalla | zetoilla | ||
ablative | zetalta | zetoilta | ||
allative | zetalle | zetoille | ||
essive | zetana | zetoina | ||
translative | zetaksi | zetoiksi | ||
abessive | zetatta | zetoitta | ||
instructive | — | zetoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
zeta m (plural zetas)
Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
zeta
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
Icelandic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
zeta f (genitive singular zetu, nominative plural zetur)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
- zeta (Greek letter)
Declension[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Latin zēta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew זין (zayin).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
zeta m or f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.; zed, zee
- the name of the Greek script letter Ζ/ζ; zeta
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈzeː.ta/, [ˈd̪͡z̪eːt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ze.ta/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːt̪ä]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Noun[edit]
zēta f (indeclinable)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: zeta (learned)
- → English: zeta (learned)
- → French: zèta (learned)
- → Romanian: zeta
- Old French: zede
- → Galician: zeta (learned)
- → Icelandic: zeta (learned)
- → Spanish: zeta (learned)
- → Swedish: zäta (learned)
Unsorted:
References[edit]
- “zeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- zeta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- zeta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Latin Grammar (3rd ed., 1895), 1:
- The Latin names for the letters… For Y the sound was used, for Z the Greek name (zēta).
Etymology 2[edit]
In third- and fourth-century writings of the Late Latin period, Z often represented word-initial prevocalic di.
Noun[edit]
zēta f (genitive zētae); first declension
- (Late Latin) manuscript variant of diaeta
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | zēta | zētae |
Genitive | zētae | zētārum |
Dative | zētae | zētīs |
Accusative | zētam | zētās |
Ablative | zētā | zētīs |
Vocative | zēta | zētae |
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ze‧ta
Noun[edit]
zeta m (plural zetas)
- zeta (name of the Greek letter Ζ, ζ)
See also[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
zeta m (plural zeta)
Declension[edit]
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Noun[edit]
zȇta n (Cyrillic spelling зе̑та)
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
zeta (Cyrillic spelling зета)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθeta/ [ˈθe.t̪a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈseta/ [ˈse.t̪a]
- (Castilian)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: ze‧ta
- Homophone: (Latin America) seta
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin zēta or its etymon, Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Noun[edit]
zeta f (plural zetas)
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta).
Noun[edit]
zeta f (plural zetas)
Further reading[edit]
- “zeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish zeta, the Spanish name of the letter Z/z, from Latin zēta or Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈzeta/ [ˈzɛ.tɐ]
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: ze‧ta
Noun[edit]
zeta (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜆ) (historical)
- the name of the Latin-script letter Z/z, in the Abecedario
- Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) zi
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/iːtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Mathematics
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Greek letter names
- Asturian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Asturian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- ast:Latin letter names
- ast:Greek letter names
- Basque terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Basque/eta
- Rhymes:Basque/eta/2 syllables
- Basque terms borrowed from Spanish
- Basque terms derived from Spanish
- Basque lemmas
- Basque nouns
- Basque inanimate nouns
- eu:Latin letter names
- eu:Greek letter names
- Basque terms borrowed from Latin
- Basque terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Latin letter names
- ca:Greek letter names
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/etɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/etɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with Z
- fi:Latin letter names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Galician terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Galician terms with audio links
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician nouns with irregular gender
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Latin letter names
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
- Hawaiian terms spelled with T
- Hawaiian terms spelled with Z
- haw:Latin letter names
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛːta
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛːta/2 syllables
- Icelandic terms with homophones
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic terms spelled with Z
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- is:Latin letter names
- is:Greek letter names
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian terms derived from Hebrew
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛta
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛta/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- it:Latin letter names
- it:Greek letter names
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin indeclinable nouns
- Latin feminine indeclinable nouns
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Late Latin
- la:Greek letter names
- la:Latin letter names
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Greek letter names
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian neuter nouns
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian noun forms
- sh:Greek letter names
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta
- Rhymes:Spanish/eta/2 syllables
- Spanish terms with homophones
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- es:Greek letter names
- es:Latin letter names
- Spanish terms spelled with ze or zi
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Latin
- Tagalog terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/eta
- Rhymes:Tagalog/eta/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog terms spelled with Z
- Tagalog historical terms
- tl:Latin letter names