See also: śelo, śěło, ŝelo, село, and SELO

English

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

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selo (plural selos or sela)

  1. A village, in various Slavic regions.
    • 1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194:
      Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.

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Czech

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

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selo n

  1. village (used only for villages in East Slavic and South Slavic countries)
    Synonym: vesnice
    • 1874, M. Bogolyubov, “Žhář”, in Jaromír Hrubý, transl., Lumír[1], volume 2, page 288:
      Byl jsem a jsem dosud nejbohatším v sele Martynovce.
      I was and still am the richest one in the village of Martynovka.
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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selo

  1. neuter singular past active participle of sít
    Synonym: silo

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  • selo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • selo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • selo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈselo]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

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selo (accusative singular selon, plural seloj, accusative plural selojn)

  1. saddle

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

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selo m (plural selos)

  1. postage stamp
  2. stamp, seal

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Borrowed from Esperanto seloEnglish saddleFrench selleGerman SattelItalian sellaRussian седло́ (sedló)Spanish silla., from Latin sella.

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Noun

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selo (plural seli)

  1. saddle
    • 1910, Mondo, page 74:
      Eutyches quik kuris a la stablo, prenis mulo, selizis ol hastoze, sideskis en la selo, e kavalkis a Maria-klostro.
      Eutyches quickly ran to the stable, took a mule, hastily saddled it, sat down on the saddle and rode to the monastery of Mary.
    • 2015, Jean Martignon, “Ivain o la kavaliero kun leono”, in Kuriero Internaciona, number 1, page 11:
      Il imperas ke on pozez nova selo a lua kavalo.
      He demands that a new saddle is put on his horse.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch cello, shortening of violoncello, from Italian violoncello.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛlo/
  • Hyphenation: sè‧lo

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sèlo (first-person possessive seloku, second-person possessive selomu, third-person possessive selonya)

  1. (music) cello: a large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

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Javanese

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Romanization

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selo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of séla. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

Portuguese

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selo

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo. Cognate with Galician selo and Spanish sello.

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  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

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selo m (plural selos)

  1. seal (e.g., on a document)
  2. stamp
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Verb

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selo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of selar

Samoan

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Samoan cardinal numbers
0 1  > 
    Cardinal : selo

Numeral

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selo

  1. zero

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

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  • IPA(key): /sělo/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

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sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

  1. a village
    • 1916, “Tamo Daleko”, Đorđe Marinković (lyrics), Corfu:
      Tamo daleko, daleko od mora,
      Tamo je selo moje, tamo je Srbija.
      There, far away, far from the sea,
      There is the village of mine, there is Serbia.
  2. the country, countryside
  3. rural area
    Ljubav je na selu(TV broadcast "Farmer Wants a Wife" in Croatia)
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Further reading

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  • selo” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

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Reflects Proto-Slavic *sědlo, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (to sit), with a sense development similar to Polish posiedzenie, Latin sessio, English sitting.

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  • IPA(key): /sěːlo/
  • Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

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sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

  1. social call, visit
  2. rural evening social gathering, sometimes featuring traditional music and amusements
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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈselo/ [ˈse.lo]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification: se‧lo

Verb

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selo

  1. inflection of ser:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with lo
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo

Ternate

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selo

  1. (transitive) to slice or cut right through

Conjugation

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Conjugation of selo
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st toselo foselo miselo
2nd noselo niselo
3rd Masculine oselo iselo, yoselo
Feminine moselo
Neuter iselo
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh