eta

Plural: eta, etas

Noun

• The seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (Η, η).
• a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
  • "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials"
• the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
• The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
• A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
• 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”).

Examples

• An ETA followed by a ’Q’ can be a challenging combination to play in Scrabble.

Synonyms

Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna

Related Words

alpha, beta, burakumin, chi, delta, epsilon, gamma, heta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, omega, omicron, phi, pi, psi, rho, sigma, tau, theta, upsilon, xi, zeta