sella

See also: Sella and sellá

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sella

1. inflection of sellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: sellas, sellât

Verb

sella

1. third-person singular past historic of seller

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Galician

Sella

Alternative forms

• senlla, silla

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sitla, from contraction of Latin situla, perhaps locally influenced by sedilia. Cognate with Portuguese selha and French seau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseʎa̝/

Noun

sella f (plural sellas)

1. wooden conical vessel, reinforced with hoops, used for keeping or transporting fresh water

References

• Template:R:DDLG
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• “sella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlla

Noun

sella f (plural selle)

1. saddle (horse, bicycle, motorcycle saddle)

Related terms

• sellaio
• sellare
• sellatura
• selleria
• sellificio
• sellino

Verb

sella

1. inflection of sellare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

Alternative forms

• sedda (ancient)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, whence sedeō (“I sit”). The same formation as (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *sedъlo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsel.la/, [ˈs̠ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsel.la/, [ˈsɛlːä]

Noun

sella f (genitive sellae); first declension

1. seat, chair
2. sedan chair
3. saddle
4. stool

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sella	sellae
Genitive	sellae	sellārum
Dative	sellae	sellīs
Accusative	sellam	sellās
Ablative	sellā	sellīs
Vocative	sella	sellae

Synonyms

• (seat, chair): solium

Derived terms

• duabus sellis sedeo

Descendants

• Albanian: shalë
• Aromanian: shauã
• Asturian: siella, siya
• Catalan: sella
• Cebuano: síya (via Spanish)
• Dalmatian: siala
• French: selle
• Friulian: siele
• Galician: sela, silla (via Spanish)
• Hebrew: אסלה (asla)
• Italian: sella

• Occitan: sèla
• Portuguese: sela, silha (via Spanish)
• Romanian: șa, șale
• Romansch: sella, siala, seala, sela
• Sardinian: sedha, sedda
• Sicilian: sedda
• Spanish: silla
• Tagalog: silya (via Spanish)
• Venetian: sela, seła

References

• “sella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Verb

sella

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of sellar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of sellar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of sellar.