selle

Noun

selle (plural selles)

1. Obsolete spelling of sell.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)

     When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.

Verb

selle

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

Pronoun

selle

1. genitive singular of see

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: celle, celles, scelle, scelles, scellent, sel, sellent, selles, sels

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle (for riding)

   Synonym: (Louisiana) soutadaire

2. commode (chair containing a chamber pot)

   Synonym: chaise percée

3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)

Further reading

• “selle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• elles

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: sèl‧le

Noun

selle f

1. plural of sella

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

Etymology 1

From Latin cella.

Etymology 2

From Low German selle.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse selja.

References

• “selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

References

• “selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsel.le/, [ˈseɫ.ɫe]

Verb

selle

1. inflection of sellan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Determiner

selle

1. feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
2. nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that

Verb

selle

1. inflection of sellar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

selle c (plural [please provide])

1. (rare) February

   Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne