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etas

etas is the plural of eta.

Meaning of eta

Noun (1)

eta (plural etas)

  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.

Noun (2)

eta (plural etas or eta)

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

Noun (1) capitalized: ETAs

ETAs

  1. (plural) plural of ETA

Noun (2) capitalized: eTAs

eTAs

  1. (plural) plural of eTA

Questions about etas

What is etas the plural of?
Etas is the plural of eta.
What part of speech is etas?
Etas is a noun.

Words near etas in the dictionary

  1. etaprime
  2. etaqualone
  3. etaracizumab
  4. Etarra
  5. Etarras
  6. etas
  7. etatism
  8. etatisme
  9. etatisms
  10. etatist
  11. etatiste

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Adapted from Wiktionary: etas (page history and authors); ETAs (page history and authors); eTAs (page history and authors); eta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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