noun, feminine/ˈseda/plural: sedas
silk (fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod); silk (fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers); thin string (long, very thin, and flexible structure made from threads twisted together)
Inherited from Old Spanish seda, from Latin sēta, monophthongized variant of saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).