selo

See also: ŝelo and село

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛlo]
  • Rhymes: -ɛlo
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian село́ (seló, village).

Noun

selo n

  1. village (used only for villages in Russia or in south-Slavic countries, for example Croatia)
    • 1874, M. Bogolyubov; Jaromír Hrubý (transl.), “Žhář”, in Lumír, volume 2, page 288:
      Byl jsem a jsem dosud nejbohatším v sele Martynovce.
      I was and still am the richest one in the village of Martynovka.
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

selo

  1. neuter singular past participle of sít

Anagrams

Further reading

  • selo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • selo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈselo/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo
  • Rhymes: -elo

Noun

selo (accusative singular selon, plural seloj, accusative plural selojn)

  1. saddle

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

  1. postage stamp
  2. stamp, seal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto selo, English saddle, French selle, German Sattel, Italian sella, Russian седло́ (sedló), Spanish silla., from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈse.lo/

Noun

selo (plural seli)

  1. saddle
    • 1910, Mondo, page 74.
      Eutyches quik kuris a la stablo, prenis mulo, selizis ol hastoze, sideskis en la selo, e kavalkis a Maria-klostro.
      Eutyches quickly ran to the stable, took a mule, hastily saddled it, sat down on the saddle and rode to the monastery of Mary.
    • 2015, Jean Martignon, "Ivain o la kavaliero kun leono", in Kuriero Internaciona, No. 1, page 11.
      Il imperas ke on pozez nova selo a lua kavalo.
      He demands that a new saddle is put on his horse.

Derived terms


Portuguese

selo

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈse.lu/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

  1. seal (e.g., on a document)
  2. stamp

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of selar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.lu/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Verb

selo

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of selar

Samoan

Samoan cardinal numbers
0 1  > 
    Cardinal : selo

Numeral

selo

  1. zero

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *selo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sělo/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

  1. a village
  2. the country, countryside
  3. rural area
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěːlo/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

  1. An evening party in the village.
Declension
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