seta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "seta"

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English

Setae on the foreleg of a mayfly

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophone: seater

Noun

seta (plural setas or setae or setæ)

1. 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.

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, 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 […]

Derived terms

• macroseta
• microseta
• neuroseta
• setal
• setation
• setiferous
• setigerous

Translations

bristle or hair

• Bulgarian: четина (bg) f (četina)
• Finnish: harjas (fi), karva (fi), suka (fi)
• Portuguese: cerda (pt) f
• Swedish: seta (sv)

stalk of a moss sporangium

• Catalan: seta (ca) f
• Finnish: sukanen
• Romanian: setă (ro) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} štětina (cs) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pelillo (es) m

Anagrams

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

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.tá/

Noun

seta (Kana spelling セタ)

1. (alienable, countable) A dog; Canis familiaris.

   Synonyms: reep, reyep

   Ku-ramu humi! Ku-kor seta k-ere wa k-oyra!

   Oh, no! I forgot to feed my dog!

2. (alienable, uncountable) Japanese hedge parsley, a type of white flowering plant from the same family as celery; Torilis japonica.

Usage notes

• In both meanings, due to a phonetic rule, the diminutive form made with the intransitive stative verb pon is always poyseta instead of pon seta.

Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Ancient Greek σηπτή (sēptḗ, “poultice to cause the flesh to rot”), feminine of σηπτός (sēptós, “rotten”), from σήπω (sḗpō, “to make rotten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/ [ˈse.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: se‧ta

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom
2. honeycomb

   Synonyms: caxellu, fozón, (Patsuezu) enxeita

Further reading

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “seta”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “seta”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛta]

Participle

seta

1. inflection of sít:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter