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seta
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "seta"
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
seta (plural setas or setae or setæ)
- A bristle or hair.
- 1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83:
- The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.
- (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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
- The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches […]
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Translations
bristle or hair
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Ainu
Pronunciation
Noun
seta (Kana spelling セタ)
Synonyms
Asturian
Noun
seta f (plural setes)
Czech
Pronunciation
Participle
seta
- inflection of sít:
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, supine sett)
- to set, to put
- seta pengar inn á kontoina ― to deposit money
- seta ein prís ― to fix a price
- seta í gongd ― to start
- seta spor ― to leave a trace
- sólin setur ― the sun is setting
- seta seg ― to sit down
Conjugation
1Only the past participle being declined.
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Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish skädda.
Pronunciation
Noun
seta (dated)
Usage notes
Declension
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French
Etymology
Noun
seta f (plural setæ)
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese saeta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sagitta.
Pronunciation
Noun
seta f (plural setas)
- arrow
- Synonym: frecha
- 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “seeta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “seeta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “seta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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