seda

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) silk (fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod)
2. (feminine) silk (fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers)
3. (feminine) thin string (long, very thin, and flexible structure made from threads twisted together)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of sedar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of sedar:

sedar

to sedate

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Concepts

silk

rayon

bristle

smoothly

sylk

silk

silks

Synonyms

floja

de seda

Translations

soie

seta

Seide

seda

zijde

seda

μετάξι

حرير

ipek

seda

zij

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حرِير

μέταξα

ئاوریشم

Hyphenated as

se‧da

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈseda/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish: seda

Inherited from Latin: sēta

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish seda, from Latin sēta, monophthongized variant of saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).