eta
名词 n.
英 /ˈiːtə/
美 /ˈeɪtə/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
- Alternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”).
- A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).
词源 2
From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).
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