saeta Latin · revision 5012

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsae̯.ta]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsɛː.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saeta''' ''f'' (genitive saetae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelt ''sēta''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*saitā-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*séh₂i-to-|t=cord]], from [[ine-pro|*seh₂i-|t=to bind]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Schrijver doubts the link between “bind” and “hair”, but de Vaan notes that the root has many words for “strap” and “cord”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|सेतु|tr=sétu|t=band, fetter]], [[lt|siẽtas|t=tie]], [[cu|сѣть|tr=sětĭ|t=snare]] and [[goh|seid|t=cord]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it of a beard that pricks the lips like bristles.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a coarse or stiff hair of an animal, a bristle, as of a boar in Ovid, or the mane of a horse, and a fishing line made of horsehair.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Late Latin it came to mean silk, the sense of most of its descendants.^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Britain bristles were used as needles, in medicine and as wicks.^(DMLBS) It survives as [[it|seta]], [[fr|soie]] and [[es|seda]], and English ''seta'' “bristle” is borrowed in zoology.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1793 – English ''seta'' is recorded in zoology.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|bristle]], stiff hair (of an animal).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A fishing line of horsehair.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' [[m|en|Silk]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bisaetus]]

+ * [[saetiger]]

+ * [[saetōsus]]

+ * [[saetula]]

+ * [[equisaetum]]

+ * [[saetacium]]

+ * [[setula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saeculum]]

+ * [[en|seta]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}