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seter
English
Etymology 1
See saeter.
Noun
seter (plural seters)
- Alternative spelling of saeter
- 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:
- Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
- 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:
- In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.
- 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:
- For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
- 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
seter (plural seters)
- A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
- 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:
- The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.
- 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere ?ISBN, page 227
- As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.
- 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:
Etymology 3
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Noun
seter (plural seters)
- A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.
Anagrams
- Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch ster (“star”), from Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [s??t?r]
- Hyphenation: sê?tèr
Noun
seter or sêtèr
- (colloquial) star, a star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
- Synonym: bintang
Further reading
- “seter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
seter n pl
- indefinite plural of sete
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse setr, sætr.
Noun
seter f (definite singular setra, indefinite plural setrar or setrer, definite plural setrane or setrene)
- a seter
- Synonym: støl
Alternative forms
- sæter (non-standard since 2012)
Derived terms
Related terms
- sitja (“to sit”).
Etymology 2
Noun
seter f
- indefinite plural of sete
References
- “seter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Ester, ester, reset, reste, setre, teser, terse
seter From the web:
peter
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pi?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?pit?/, /?pi??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
- Homophone: pita (non-rhotic accents)
- Hyphenation: pe?ter
Etymology 1
US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as a slang term for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, John Thomas, etc.
Noun
peter (plural peters)
- (slang) The penis.
- 1997: Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America [2]
- You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.
- 1998: Michael Robert Gorman, The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria [3]
- ... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"
- 2002: Celia H Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood [4]
- “It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.
- 1997: Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America [2]
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
peter (plural peters)
- (Britain, slang) A safe.
- Synonym: pete
- 1963, Kenneth Ullyett, Crime out of Hand (page 109)
- It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.
Derived terms
- peterman
Etymology 3
1812, US miners’ slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested. One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder – when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered”. Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock”), or French péter (“to fart”).
Verb
peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)
- (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
- 2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway (page 241)
- My words petered away.
- 2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway (page 241)
Usage notes
Originally used independently, but today most often in the derived phrase peter out.
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)
- (card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter
References
Anagrams
- Peret, Petre, Prete, peert, petre, repet.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch peter, from petrijn, from Latin patr?nus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: pe?ter
- Rhymes: -e?t?r
Noun
peter m (plural peters, feminine meter)
- A godfather.
- Synonym: peetoom
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