selle
English edit
Noun edit
selle (plural selles)
Asturian edit
Verb edit
selle
Estonian edit
Pronoun edit
selle
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /sɛl/
audio (file) - Homophones: celle, celles, scelle, scelles, scellent, sel, sellent, selles, sels
Noun edit
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 edit
Further reading edit
- “selle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selle f
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
selle
- Alternative form of selly
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
selle
- Alternative form of sellen
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Noun edit
selle f (plural selles)
Descendants edit
- French: selle
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Noun edit
selle f (plural selles)
Derived terms edit
- selle à beurre f (“butter churn”)
- selle à tuthet f (“rammer churn”)
- selle bâtchiéthe f (“packsaddle”)
- seller (“to saddle”, verb)
- sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
- sellot m (“saddle”)
- sellyi m (“saddler”)
- tigue dé selle f (“seat post, saddle stem”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Low German selle.
Noun edit
selle m (definite singular sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- (historical) a miner
- (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
selle (present tense seller)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge
References edit
- “selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)
- alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)
References edit
- “selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German edit
Determiner edit
selle
- feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
- nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that
Spanish edit
Verb edit
selle
- inflection of sellar:
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Shortening of sellemoanne.
Noun edit
selle c (plural [please provide])
- (rare) February
- Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne
Further reading edit
- “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011