# saeta
## English
### Noun

saeta (plural saetas)
* A Spanish religious song evoking strong emotion, usually sung during public processions.

### Anagrams

* Aetas, at sea

## Estonian
### Noun

saeta
* abessive singular of saag

## Finnish
### Etymology

From sakea +‎ -eta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɑetɑˣ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝e̞t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ɑetɑ
* Hyphenation: sae‧ta

### Verb

saeta
* (intransitive, usually of snowfall) To thicken, become/get thick(er).
    Lumisade sakeni nopeasti ja näkyvyys huononi.The snowfall thickened fast and the visibility worsened.

#### Derived terms

* sakeneminen

### Further reading

* “saeta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* aseta, etsaa, saate, seata

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* sēta

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂it-o/eh₂-, *sh₂éyt-o/eh₂-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Compare Old High German seid (“cord”), Old Norse seior, Czech síť (“net”), Russian сеть (setʹ, “net, mesh”), Old Church Slavonic сѣть (sětĭ, “trap, snare, net”), Lithuanian sietas (“tie”), Old Prussian saytan (“belt, strap”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬈𐬙𐬎 (haetu, “dam”), and Sanskrit सेतु (sétu, “bridge, fetter, band”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsae̯.ta/, [ˈs̠äe̯t̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ta/, [ˈsɛːt̪ä]

### Noun

saeta f (genitive saetae); first declension
* a bristle, (rough) hair on an animal
* (Late Latin) silk (the meaning of most descendants in modern languages)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* (Late Latin): brevisētus, brevisētis

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: seda, sera, seta
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Central Italian: seta, sete, seda
** Corsican: sita
** Dalmatian: saita
** Italian: seta
** Neapolitan: seta, sèita
** Sicilian: sita
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: sede
** Ladin: seida, seda
** Romansch: saida, seida, seda
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: seda, sèida
** Ligurian: sæa, sèe, sèje, sè
** Lombard: seda, sida
*** → Piedmontese: seda, sèida (“silk”)
** Piedmontese: sèje, sèja, sè (“bristle”)
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: sèya, sèye
** French: soie
** Norman: souaie
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: seda
** Occitan: seda
    Gascon: seta
    Vivaro-Alpine: sea
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: seda
** Asturian: seda, sea
** Extremaduran: sea
** Leonese: seda
** Old Galician-Portuguese: seda
*** Galician: seda
*** Portuguese: seda
** Spanish: seda
* Borrowings:
** → English: seta
** → Irish: síoda
** → Proto-West Germanic: *sīdā (see there for further descendants)
** → Welsh: sidan

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “saeta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 533-534

### Further reading

* “saeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “saeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* saeta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin sagitta (“arrow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saˈeta/

### Noun

saeta f (plural saetas)
* arrow, crossbow bolt
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 126 (facsimile):
    Ca a Saeta llentrara aſſẏ / pellos oſſos da faz comaṗṅdi / que non lla podiȧ tirar dali
       The bolt had gotten into / the bones of his face, as I've heard, / such that they couldn't remove it.

#### Related terms

* saetada
* baesta, arqueiro

#### Descendants

* Galician: seta
* Portuguese: seta

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saˈeta/ [saˈe.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -eta
* Syllabification: sa‧e‧ta

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sagitta.

#### Noun

saeta f (plural saetas)
* arrow
    Synonym: flecha
* dart
    Synonym: dardo
* hand (of a clock or watch)
    Synonyms: manecilla, aguja

##### Related terms

* asaetear
* saetar
* saetear
* saetera

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

saeta
* inflection of saetar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “saeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10