selle

See also: Selle and sellé

English

Noun

selle (plural selles)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sell
    • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
      When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.

Asturian

Verb

selle

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

Estonian

Pronoun

selle

  1. genitive singular of see

French

Etymology

From Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

  1. saddle (for riding)
  2. commode (chair containing a chamber pot)
    Synonym: chaise percée
  3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)

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Derived terms

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Italian

Noun

selle f

  1. plural of sella

Middle English

Adjective

selle

  1. Alternative form of selly

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

  1. saddle

Descendants


Norman

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

  1. (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

Derived terms


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin cella

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

  1. Alternative form of celle

References

“selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin cella

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

  1. Alternative form of celle

References

“selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.


Pennsylvania German

Determiner

selle

  1. inflection of sell:
    1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

Spanish

Verb

selle

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sellar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sellar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sellar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sellar.

West Frisian

Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

selle c (plural [please provide])

  1. (rare) February
    Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

Further reading

  • selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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