geta

[ get-uh; Japanese ge-tah ]

noun,plural ge·ta, ge·tas.
  1. a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.

Origin of geta

1
1880–85; <Japanese, perhaps by ellipsis from shita-geta, equivalent to shita below, under + -geta, combining form of keta slat, lath; or ge (<Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese xià below) + Japanese (i)ta board

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How to use geta in a sentence

  • Not only in the inscriptions of the time of Septimius Severus, but even in the reliefs we everywhere find Getas figure erased.

    Old Rome | Robert Burn
  • To Getas salutation, Demea asks churlishly, as not at first knowing him, Who are you?

  • This obviously contradicts the following transit nostra feros si modo Musa Getas.

  • geta lede hrewic heldon, the Getas held the place of corpses (lay dead upon it), 1215; pret.

    Beowulf | Unknown
  • She is mentioned as the opposite to the mild, dignified Hygd, the queen of the Getas.

    Beowulf | Unknown