different between seta vs spur

English

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

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sè?tá/

Noun

seta (Kana spelling ??)

1. dog

Synonyms

• reyep

Asturian

Noun

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. Causative of *sitjan?.

Verb

seta (third person singular past indicative setti, third person plural past indicative sett, supine sett)

1. to set, to put

Conjugation

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeta.

Noun

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

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): /?s?ta?/

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.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin s?ta, from saeta, from Proto-Italic *sait?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ito-, *sh?éyto-, from *sh?ey-, *seh?i- (“to bind”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese seda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.ta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: sé?ta

Noun

seta f (plural sete)

1. (textiles) silk

Derived terms

Related terms

• setola

Anagrams

• aste, tesa

References

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

Javanese

Adjective

seta

1. Dated spelling of séta.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se?.ta/, [?s?e?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ta/, [?s??t??]

Noun

s?ta f (genitive s?tae); 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

From Sanskrit ????? (?veta, “white”).

Adjective

seta

1. white

References

• “seta”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.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 s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• seta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s?.t?/
• Hyphenation: sé?ta

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow
   1. weapon
   2. pointing symbol

Synonyms

• flecha

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sj?ta

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?ta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

s?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?seta/, [?se.t?a]
• Homophone: zeta (non-Castilian dialects)

Noun

seta f (plural setas)

1. mushroom (especially edible)

   Synonyms: (Chile) callampa, champiñón, hongo

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sp?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spura, spora, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”).

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

1. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.

   Meronyms: rowel, prick

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:

     Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.

2. A jab given with the spurs.
   • 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)

     I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.

3. (figuratively) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
4. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
6. Roots, tree roots.
7. (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
9. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
10. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
11. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
12. Ergotized rye or other grain.
13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
14. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
15. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
16. (mining) A branch of a vein.
17. (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
18. (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
19. (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.

Derived terms

• spur gear
• spur-leather
• spur-of-the-moment
• spur road

Translations

Verb

spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)

1. (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:

     Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

2. (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object

   Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive; see also Thesaurus:incite

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV, line 4.

     My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth...
3. (transitive) To put spurs on.

4. (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.

Derived terms

• spur on

Translations

Etymology 2

See sparrow.

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

1. A tern.

Etymology 3

Short for spurious.

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

1. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.

Etymology 4

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

1. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

Translations

Etymology 5

Verb

spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
   • 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.

   • The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.

Anagrams

• Prus, purs, surp

Middle English

Noun

spur

1. Alternative form of spore

Scots

Alternative forms

• sparra
• spug
• spuggie
• speug

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

1. sparrow

References

• “spur” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.