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-person singular present subjunctive of sellar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

Pronoun

selle

1. Genitive singular form of see.

Etymology

From Latin sella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

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

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle (for riding)
2. commode (chair containing a chamber pot)

   Synonym: chaise percée

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

Further reading

• “selle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• elles

Noun

selle f

1. plural of sella

Adjective

selle

1. Alternative form of selly

Etymology

Old French sele < 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

From Latin cella

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of celle

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 form of celle

References

“selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Determiner

selle

1. inflection of sell:
   1. feminine nominative and accusative singular
   2. nominative and accusative plural
   3. dative plural

Verb

selle

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sellar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sellar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sellar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sellar.

Etymology

Shortened from sellemoanne

Noun

selle

1. February (least common)