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Meaning of Eta | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ˈiːtə

Definitions

  1. The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
  2. A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
  3. Acronym of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna.
  4. Initialism of estimated time of arrival.
  5. A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
  6. Initialism of Electronic Travel Authority (Australia).
  7. Initialism of electronic travel authorisation.
  8. Initialism of Elvis tribute artist, a professional impersonator who performs as Elvis Presley.

Equivalents

Català eta
Čeština éta
Deutsch Eta
Ελληνικά ήτα
Esperanto eto
Español eta
Suomi eeta
Français eta
Íslenska eta
Italiano età
日本語 いた エータ
한국어 에타
Kurdî eto
Македонски ета
Nederlands èta
Polski eta
Português eta eta
Русский и́та эта
Українська ета

Examples

“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.”
“We're even, as long as we're only counting today. Kilo 023, what's your ETA?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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