céleri
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Lombard selleri, plural form of seller, from Late Latin selīnon, from Ancient Greek σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
céleri m (plural céleris)
Descendants edit
- → Czech: celer
- → Dutch: selderij (see there for further descendants)
- → English: celery
- → Finnish: selleri
- → German: Sellerie
- → Estonian: seller
- → Hungarian: zeller
- → Icelandic: sellerí
- → Irish: soilire
- → Japanese: セロリ (serori)
- → Macedonian: целер (celer)
- → Norman: céléri
- → Norwegian: selleri
- → Polish: seler
- → Scottish Gaelic: soilire
- → Serbo-Croatian: celer / целер
- → Swedish: selleri
- → Vilamovian: seler
- → West Flemish: selder
- → Yiddish: סעלעריע (selerye)
Further reading edit
- “céleri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.