eta

名词 n.
/ˈiːtə/    /ˈeɪtə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
  3. Alternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”). alt-of,alternative
  4. A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin. particle

词形变化

etas plural etas plural eta plural etas plural

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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