Seta in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Seta

You can make 34 words from 'seta' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'seta'
• 3 letters words from 'seta'
• 2 letters words from 'seta'

4 letters words from 'seta'

ATES 4	EAST 4
EATS 4	ETAS 4
SATE 4	SEAT 4
SETA 4	TAES 4
TASE 4	TEAS 4

3 letters words from 'seta'

ATE 3	ATS 3
EAS 3	EAT 3
EST 3	ETA 3
SAE 3	SAT 3
SEA 3	SET 3
TAE 3	TAS 3
TEA 3	TES 3

2 letters words from 'seta'

AE 2	AS 2
AT 2	EA 2
ES 2	ET 2
ST 2	TA 2
TE 2

Definitions and meaning of seta

seta

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta.

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.

Derived terms

• microseta
• setation

Translations

Anagrams

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

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Asturian

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

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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

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Finnish

Noun

seta

1. (nautical, dated) Synonym of lokilastu.

Usage notes

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

Declension

See also

• setalainen

Anagrams

• Seat, aste, tase

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

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Galician

Alternative forms

• seeta

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese saeta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛta̝/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• setada

References

• “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.

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Italian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

1. (textiles) silk

Anagrams

• aste, tesa

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ta/, [ˈseː.t̪a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ta/, [ˈsɛː.t̪a]

Noun

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• setene

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seta n

1. definite plural of set
2. definite plural of sete

seta f

1. definite singular of sete

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

Etymology 1

Noun

seta f

1. Augmentative of setka

Usage notes

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

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

seta

1. genitive singular of set

Further reading

• seta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• seta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow
   1. weapon
   2. pointing symbol

Synonyms

• flecha

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sjȅta

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

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

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)

Synonyms

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• (German) a very small plankton organism.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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