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Seta

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Se′ta

(sē′tȧ)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Setae
(sē′tē)
.
[L.
seta
,
saeta
, a bristle.]
1.
(Biol.)
Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
(b)
One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Definition 2024

seta

seta

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

English

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. 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

Asturian

Noun

seta f ‎(plural setes)

  1. mushroom

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

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f ‎(plural setæ)

  1. seta

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Noun

seta f ‎(plural setas)

  1. arrow

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f ‎(plural sete)

  1. silk

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

sēta f ‎(genitive sētae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative sēta sētae
genitive sētae sētārum
dative sētae sētīs
accusative sētam sētās
ablative sētā sētīs
vocative sēta sētae

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

seta n

  1. definite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seta n

  1. definite plural of sete

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

Noun

seta f

  1. Augmentative of setka

Usage notes

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

Declension

Noun

seta

  1. genitive singular of set

Portuguese

setas

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

  1. arrow.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sȅta f ‎(Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

  1. sorrow, melancholy

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f ‎(plural setas)

  1. mushroom (especially edible)

Synonyms

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta.

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