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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːtə/

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• Homophone: seater

seta (plural setas or setae or setæ)

1. A bristle or hair.
   • 1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83:

     The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.

2. (botany) The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:

     The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches […]

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, tase, teas

• IPA^(key): /se.tá/

seta (Kana spelling セタ)

1. (alienable, countable) A dog; Canis familiaris.

   Synonyms: reep, reyep

   Ku-ramu humi! Ku-kor seta k-ere wa k-oyra!

   Oh, no! I forgot to feed my dog!

2. (alienable, uncountable) Japanese hedge parsley, a type of white flowering plant from the same family as celery; Torilis japonica.

• In both meanings, due to a phonetic rule, the diminutive form made with the intransitive stative verb pon is always poyseta instead of pon seta.

Uncertain. Possibly from Ancient Greek σηπτή (sēptḗ, “poultice to cause the flesh to rot”), feminine of σηπτός (sēptós, “rotten”), from σήπω (sḗpō, “to make rotten”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/ [ˈse.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: se‧ta

seta f (plural setes)

1. mushroom
2. honeycomb

   Synonyms: caxellu, fozón, (Patsuezu) enxeita

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “seta”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “seta”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛta]

seta

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

From Old Norse setja, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. Causative of *sitjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/

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

   sólin setur ― the sun is setting

   seta seg ― to sit down

   seta í bás ― to pigeonhole

From Swedish skädda.

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

seta (dated)

1. (nautical) synonym of lokilastu

• In contemporary Finnish Seta refers to a Finnish association that works for LGBT rights.

• setalainen

• Seat, aste, tase

Learned borrowing from Latin saeta.

seta f (plural setæ)

1. seta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛta/ [ˈs̺ɛ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Hyphenation: se‧ta

seta f (plural setas)

1. arrow

   Synonyms: frecha, virote

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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

• “seta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “seta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “seta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “seta”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseta/

seta f (plural seti)

1. silk

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛːta]

seta f (genitive singular setu, nominative plural setur)

1. sitting (act of sitting)
2. seat (membership on a committee)
3. lid, seat (of a toilet)
4. seat (of a chair)

• zeta

seta f (genitive singular setu, nominative plural setur)

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ta/

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: sé‧ta

seta f (plural sete)

1. (textiles) silk
2. (botany, zoology) bristle

• setola

• “seta”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

• -aste, aste, tesa

seta

1. dated spelling of séta

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ta]

sēta f (genitive sētae); first declension

1. alternative form of saeta (“bristle”)

First-declension noun.

• setula

• “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.

• setene

seta n

1. definite plural of sete

seta n

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

seta f

1. definite singular of sete

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

seta

1. white

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Syllabification: se‧ta
• Homophone: Seta

Back-formation from setka.

seta f

1. augmentative of setka

Typically refers to a 100 ml bottle or shot of vodka.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seta m animal

1. genitive singular of set

• “seta”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “seta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta (“arrow”).

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧ta

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

• flecha

• “seta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “seta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “seta”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “seta”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “seta”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026

Borrowed from English set.

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

1. (computing) to set, to configure

• sjȅta (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěta.

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

sȅta f (Cyrillic spelling се̏та)

1. sorrow, melancholy

Uncertain. Possibly from Ancient Greek σηπτή (sēptḗ, “poultice to cause the flesh to rot”), feminine of σηπτός (sēptós, “rotten”), from σήπω (sḗpō, “to make rotten”).^[1]

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

seta f (plural setas)

1. (Spain) mushroom

   Synonyms: (Latin America) hongo, champiñón, (Chile) callampa

• “seta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːta/

seta n

1. The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.

• Latin script letter names: bokstäver: a · be · se · de · e · eff · ge · hå · i · ji · kå · ell · emm · enn · o · pe · ku · ärr · ess · te · u · ve · dubbel-v · ex · y · seta · å · ä · ö ^[edit]

• aset, etsa