different between zeta vs seta

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 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