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English
Noun
selle (plural selles)
- 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
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar
Estonian
Pronoun
selle
- genitive singular of see
French
Etymology
Inherited 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)
- saddle (for riding)
- Synonym: (Louisiana) soutadaire
- commode (chair containing a chamber pot)
- Synonym: chaise percée
- (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)
Derived terms
Further reading
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
selle f
- plural of sella
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
selle
- Alternative form of selly
Etymology 2
Verb
selle
- Alternative form of sellen
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Noun
selle f (plural selles)
- saddle
Descendants
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Noun
selle f (plural selles)
- (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Latin cella.
Pronunciation
Noun
selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)
Etymology 2
From Low German selle.
Noun
selle m (definite singular sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- (historical) a miner
- (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy
Etymology 3
From Old Norse selja.
Verb
selle (present tense seller)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin cella.
Pronunciation
Noun
selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)
References
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
selle
- inflection of sellan:
- first-person singular present indicative
- singular present subjunctive
Pennsylvania German
Determiner
selle
- feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
- nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that
Spanish
Verb
selle
- inflection of sellar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
West Frisian
Etymology
Shortening of sellemoanne.
Noun
selle c (plural )
- (rare) February
- Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne
Further reading
- “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011