seta

      See also séta

      English

      Etymology

      From Latin seta, from saeta.

      Noun

      seta (plural setas or setae)

      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

      Anagrams


      ↑Jump back a section

      Faroese

      Etymology

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

      Verb

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

      1. to set, to put

      Conjugation


      ↑Jump back a section

      French

      Noun

      seta f (plural setæ)

      1. seta

      ↑Jump back a section

      Galician

      Etymology

      From Latin sagitta.

      Noun

      seta f (plural setas)

      1. arrow

      Synonyms


      ↑Jump back a section

      Italian

      Etymology

      From Latin seta, from saeta.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA: [ˈseː.t̪a], /ˈse.ta/, X-SAMPA: /"se.ta/
      • Hyphenation: sé‧ta

      Noun

      seta f (plural sete)

      1. silk

      Anagrams


      ↑Jump back a section

      Portuguese

      Etymology

      From Latin sagitta.

      Noun

      seta f (plural setas)

      1. arrow.

      ↑Jump back a section

      Serbo-Croatian

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA: /sêta/
      • Hyphenation: se‧ta

      Noun

      sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

      1. sorrow, melancholy

      Declension


      ↑Jump back a section

      Spanish

      Etymology

      Unknown

      Pronunciation

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

      Noun

      seta f (plural setas)

      1. mushroom

      Synonyms

      ↑Jump back a section
      Last modified on 19 June 2013, at 00:56