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4-letter words (10 found)

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

3-letter words (14 found)

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

2-letter words (9 found)

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

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 34 words from seta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of seta

seta esta stea tsea etsa tesa seat esat saet aset east aest stae tsae sate aste tase atse etas teas eats aets taes ates

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Definitions and meaning of seta

seta

Etymology

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

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, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, tase, teas

Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sèꜛtá/

Noun

seta (Kana spelling セタ)

  1. dog

Synonyms

  • reyep
  • reep

Asturian

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

  1. mushroom

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛta]

Participle

seta

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

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)

  1. 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
    (of the sun) to set; sólin setur - the sun is setting
    seta seg - to sit down

Conjugation

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish skädda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsetɑ/, [ˈs̠e̞t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -etɑ
  • Syllabification(key): se‧ta

Noun

seta (dated)

  1. (nautical) 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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f (plural setæ)

  1. seta

Galician

Alternative forms

  • seeta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛta̝/

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

  1. arrow
    Synonym: frecha

Derived terms

  • setada

References

  • “seeta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “seeta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “seta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “seta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Gallurese

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin sēta, monophthongized alternative form of saeta (“bristle, hair; (Late Latin) silk”), from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂it-o/eh₂-, *sh₂éyt-o/eh₂-, derived from the root *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseta/

Noun

seta f (plural seti)

  1. silk

References


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): /ˈse.ta/
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Hyphenation: sé‧ta

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

  1. (textiles) silk

Derived terms

Related terms

  • setola

Further reading

  • seta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • -aste, aste, tesa

Javanese

Adjective

seta

  1. Dated spelling of séta.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ta/, [ˈs̠eːt̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ta/, [ˈsɛːt̪ä]

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • setene

Noun

seta n

  1. definite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seta n

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

seta f

  1. definite singular of sete

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit श्वेत (śveta, “white”).

Adjective

seta

  1. white

Descendants

  • → Old Javanese: sita
    • Javanese: ꦱꦺꦠ (séta)

References

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “seta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛta
  • Syllabification: se‧ta

Etymology 1

Back-formation from setka.

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 corresponding lemma form.

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: se‧ta

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

  1. arrow
    1. weapon
    2. pointing symbol
  2. (Brazil) indicator (UK, Australia, New Zealand), turn signal (US), blinker (informal, US), direction indicator
    Synonyms: (Portugal) pisca-pisca, (Portugal) pisca

Synonyms

  • flecha

Further reading

  • “seta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “seta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “seta” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “seta” in Dicionário Online de Português.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Verb

a seta (third-person singular present setează, past participle setat) 1st conj.

  1. (computing) to set, to configure

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • sjȅta (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited 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/ [ˈse.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: se‧ta
  • Homophone: (Latin America) zeta

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

  1. mushroom (especially edible)
    Synonyms: (Chile) callampa, champiñón, hongo

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “seta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛːta/

Noun

seta n

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

See also

  • (Latin script letter names) bokstav; a, be, se, de, e, eff, ge, hå, i, ji, kå, ell, emm, enn, o, pe, ku, ärr, ess, te, u, ve, dubbel-ve, ex, y, seta, å, ä, ö (Category: sv:Latin letter names)

Anagrams

  • aset, etsa

Source: wiktionary.org