seta

From Latin seta, from saeta.

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 […]

• microseta
• setation

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

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

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

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

1. to set, to put

seta

1. (nautical, dated) Synonym of lokilastu.

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

• setalainen

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

• “seta” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• seeta

13th century. From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛta̝/

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

• setada

• “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.

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.

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

seta f (plural sete)

1. silk

• aste, tesa

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ta/

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

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

First declension.

• 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

• setene

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

seta f

1. Augmentative of setka

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

seta

1. genitive singular of set

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

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

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow
   1. weapon
   2. pointing symbol

• flecha

• (Ijekavian): sjȅta

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

• IPA^(key): /sêta/
• Hyphenation: se‧ta

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Unknown

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

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)

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