eta
noun/ˈeɪtə/
Etymology From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).
1
A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
- Related terms
- burakumin
eta
nounUK /ˈiːtə/ · US /ˈeɪtə/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).
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:
- Derived terms
- Dirichlet eta function, eta conversion, eta meson, eta prime, eta reduction
- Related terms
- heta