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eta en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈeɪtə/ (US)
• (US) audio
• (Southern-England) audio
• āʹtə (US)
• /ˈiːtə/ (Commonwealth, UK)
• ēʹtə (Commonwealth, UK)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).

Meanings

1. The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
   • Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked — a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H. 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25:
2. (particle) A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.

Forms

Deriveds

eta meson · eta reduction · Dirichlet eta function · eta conversion · eta prime

Relateds

heta

Translations (29)

is eta (Greek letter) · ja エータ (Greek letter) · cmn 伊塔 (Greek letter) · cmn 艾塔 (Greek letter) · cs éta (Greek letter) · ar إِتَا (Greek letter) · nl èta (Greek letter) · ms eta (Greek letter) · ru э́та (Greek letter) · grc ἦτα (Greek letter) · sv eta (Greek letter) · fo eta (Greek letter) · ko 에타 (Greek letter) · mk е́та (Greek letter) · pt eta (Greek letter) · ca eta (Greek letter) · hu éta (Greek letter) · pl eta (Greek letter) · el ήτα (Greek letter) · de Eta (Greek letter) · es eta (Greek letter) · eo eto (Greek letter) · fi eeta (Greek letter) · fr êta (Greek letter) · ja イタ (Greek letter) · tl eta (Greek letter) · ia eta (Greek letter) · ast eta (Greek letter) · ru и́та (Greek letter)

eta en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈeɪtə/
• āʹtə
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).

Meanings

1. A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.

Forms

Relateds

burakumin

eta en · NOUN · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”).
   alt of ita

Forms