selle

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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

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)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

selle f

  1. plural of sella

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

selle

  1. Alternative form of selly

Etymology 2

Verb

selle

  1. Alternative form of sellen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

  1. saddle

Descendants

  • French: selle

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 1

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

Etymology 2

From Low German selle.

Noun

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

  1. (historical) a miner
  2. (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy

Etymology 3

From Old Norse selja.

Verb

selle (present tense seller)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge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)

  1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

References

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

selle

  1. feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
  2. nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that

Spanish

Verb

selle

  1. inflection of sellar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

selle c (plural )

  1. (rare) February
    Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

Further reading

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