selderij
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Borrowed from French céleri, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). For the epenthetic d, which was productive well into the seventeenth century, compare kelder, zolder, daalder, mulder, vilder, volder.
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selderij m (plural selderijen, diminutive selderijtje n)
- The herb celery, Apium graveolens
- Synonyms: eppe (dialectal), soepgroente (Suriname)
- Hypernym: moerasscherm
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- Afrikaans: seldery
- → Caribbean Javanese: slèdri
- → Belarusian: сельдэрэ́й (sjelʹderéj)
- → Malay: seladeri