selle
English
Asturian
Estonian
French
Etymology
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)
- saddle (for riding)
- commode (chair containing a chamber pot)
- Synonym: chaise percée
- (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)
Synonyms
- (saddle): (Louisiana) soutadaire
Further reading
- “selle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Middle English
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sele, from Latin sella.
Derived terms
- 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]
Pennsylvania German
Determiner
selle
- inflection of sell:
- feminine nominative/accusative singular
- nominative/accusative/dative plural
Spanish
Verb
selle
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sellar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sellar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sellar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sellar.
West Frisian
Etymology
Shortening of sellemoanne.
Further reading
- “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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