different between zeta vs heta

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta). Doublet of zed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?zi?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ze?t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?, -e?t?

Noun

zeta (plural zetas)

1. The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (? (Z), ? (z)) preceded by epsilon (? (E), ? (e)) and followed by eta, (? (I), ? (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (? (W), ? (w))
2. (mathematics) A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.

   Zeta of 3 is irrational

Translations

Anagrams

• zate

Asturian

Alternative forms

• ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?e.ta/

Etymology 1

Noun

zeta inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish seda (“silk”).

Noun

zeta inan

1. silk

Declension

Further reading

• “zeta” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “zeta” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?z?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?z?.ta/

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. The Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Further reading

• “zeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “zeta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “zeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “zeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tset?/, [?ts?e?t??]
• IPA^(key): /?zet?/, [?ze?t??]
• Rhymes: -et?
• Syllabification: ze?ta

Noun

zeta

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

Declension

Galician

Alternative forms

• ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

1. zee/zed (name of the letter Z, z)

Hawaiian

Noun

zeta

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

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• seta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??ta/
• Rhymes: -??ta
• Homophone: seta

Noun

zeta f (genitive singular zetu, nominative plural zetur)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From the Latin z?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta), from Hebrew ???? (zayin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?.ta/
• Rhymes: -?ta
• Hyphenation: zè?ta

Noun

zeta m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.; zed, zee
2. The name of the Greek script letter ?/?; zeta

Derived terms

• dalla a alla zeta

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ze?.ta/, [?d??z?e?t?ä]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?ze?.ta/, [?ze?ta]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d?ze.ta/, [?d??z???t??]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

z?ta f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Greek letter zeta (?, ?).
2. The name of the letter Z.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ?, b?, c?, d?, ?, ef, g?, h? / *acca, ?, k?, el, em, en, ?, p?, k?, er, es, t?, ?, ix / ?x / ex, ? / ? graeca / ?ps?lon, z?ta

References

• zeta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zeta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• zeta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Latin Grammar (3rd ed., 1895), 1:

  The Latin names for the letters… For Y the sound was used, for Z the Greek name (z?ta).

Etymology 2

In third- and fourth-century writings of the Late Latin period, Z often represented word-initial prevocalic di.

Noun

z?ta f (genitive z?tae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) manuscript variant of diaeta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dzeta (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

1. zeta (name of the Greek letter ?, ?)

See also

• zê

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

z?ta n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. zeta; the Greek letter ?, ?

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

zeta (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/accusative singular of zet

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??eta/, [??e.t?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?seta/, [?se.t?a]
• Homophone: seta (non-Castilian)

Etymology 1

From Latin z?ta or its etymon, Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

1. the letter Z
2. zeta; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonyms: dseda, dseta

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (thêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

1. theta; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonyms: theta, tita

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (hêta).

Noun

heta (plural hetas)

1. The Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.

Translations

Further reading

• Heta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HEAT, Thea, eath, haet, hate, heat

Guaraní

Determiner

heta

1. many

Italian

Noun

heta m or f (invariable)

1. heta (old Greek letter)

Japanese

Romanization

heta

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hetet

Verb

heta

1. simple past of hete (Etymology 4)
2. past participle of hete (Etymology 4)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

heta

1. inflection of hete:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitan?.

Verb

h?ta

1. to call, invoke
2. to be called, be named

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: heta

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-heta (infinitive guheta, perfective -hese)

1. (transitive) bend

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?ta/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish h?ta, from Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitan?.

Verb

heta (present heter, preterite hette, supine hetat, imperative het)

1. (obsolete) to call, to name; to command
2. to be called; to have as one's name, to hight
   • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Genesis (Första Mosebok), 29:16, page 28 (paragraph 3, line 30)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Adjective

heta

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of het.

References

Anagrams

• Thea, heat

Westrobothnian

Verb

heta (preterite & supine heta)

1. (intransitive) To radiate heat.