seller

See also: Seller

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(r)
• Homophone: cellar

Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +‎ -er. Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

2. Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

Derived terms

terms derived from seller (1)

• bookseller
• dramseller
• fishseller
• printseller
• rumseller

• seller's market
• slopseller
• superseller
• toyseller

terms derived from seller (2)

• bestseller

• megaseller

Translations

someone who sells

• Arabic: بَائِع‎ m (bāʾiʿ)
• Azerbaijani: satıcı (az)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatïwsï)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca), гандля́р m (handljár)
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč)
• Catalan: venedor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賣方 (zh), 卖方 (zh) (màifāng), 賣主 (zh), 卖主 (zh) (màizhǔ)

• Czech: prodavač (cs) m, prodejce m, prodávající (cs)
• Danish: sælger (da) c, sælgerinde f (female), sælgerske c (female), forsælger c, forsælgerske f (female)
• Dutch: verkoper (nl) m, verkoopster (nl) f
• Esperanto: vendisto, virvendisto (male), vendistiĉo (male, neologism), vendistino (female)
• Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr) m, vendeuse (fr) f
• Friulian: venditôr m
• German: Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)

  Ancient: πωλητής m (pōlētḗs), πωλήτρια f (pōlḗtria), (suffix) -πώλης m (-pṓlēs)

• Greenlandic: -erniaq
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (io) (male), vendistino (io) (female)
• Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
• Japanese: 売り手 (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 판매인 (panmaein), 파는 사람 (paneun saram)
• Latin: vēnditor m, vēnditrīx f
• Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
• Malay: penjual
• Norman: vendeux m, vend'rêsse f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selger (no) m, selgerinne m or f (female), forselger m

  Nynorsk: seljar m, seljarinne f (female), forseljar m

• Occitan: vendeire (oc) m, vendeira f
• Persian: فروشنده‎ (fa) (forušande)
• Polish: sprzedawca (pl) m, sprzedawczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f
• Romanian: vânzător (ro) m, vânzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc), продавщи́ца (ru) f (prodavščíca), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec), торго́вка (ru) f (torgóvka), ве́ндор (ru) m (véndor), ве́ндор (ru) m (vɛ́ndor) (vendor, neologism)
• Slovak: predavač m, predajca m
• Slovene: prodajalec m
• Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï)
• Spanish: vendedor (es) m, vendedora (es) f
• Swahili: mwuzaji
• Swedish: försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female), säljare (sv) c, säljerska c (female)
• Tagalog: tagapagbili
• Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja), торго́вець m (torhóvecʹ)
• Volapük: selan (vo), hiselan (male), jiselan (female)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער‎ m (farkoyfer), פֿאַרקויפֿערין‎ f (farkoyferin)

something which sells

• Swedish: säljare (sv) c

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

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Estonian

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

Inflection of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	seller	sellerid
accusative	selleri	sellerid
genitive	selleri	sellerite
partitive	sellerit	sellereid
illative	sellerisse	selleritesse sellereisse
inessive	selleris	sellerites sellereis
elative	sellerist	selleritest sellereist
allative	sellerile	selleritele sellereile
adessive	selleril	selleritel sellereil
ablative	sellerilt	selleritelt sellereilt
translative	selleriks	selleriteks sellereiks
terminative	sellerini	selleriteni
essive	sellerina	selleritena
abessive	sellerita	selleriteta
comitative	selleriga	selleritega

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French

Etymology

selle +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.le/, /se.le/

• Audio

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• Homophone: sceller

Verb

seller

1. to saddle
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:

     Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.

     Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.

Conjugation

Conjugation of seller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	seller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sellant /sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /se.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sellé /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	selle /sɛl/	selles /sɛl/	selle /sɛl/	sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/	sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/	sellent /sɛl/
	imperfect	sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/	sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/	sellait /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/	sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/	selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/	sellaient /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/
	past historic2	sellai /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/	sellas /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/	sella /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/	sellâmes /sɛ.lam/ or /se.lam/	sellâtes /sɛ.lat/ or /se.lat/	sellèrent /sɛ.lɛʁ/ or /se.lɛʁ/
	future	sellerai /sɛl.ʁe/	selleras /sɛl.ʁa/	sellera /sɛl.ʁa/	sellerons /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	sellerez /sɛl.ʁe/	selleront /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/	sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/	sellerait /sɛl.ʁɛ/	sellerions /sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	selleriez /sɛ.lə.ʁje/	selleraient /sɛl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	selle /sɛl/	selles /sɛl/	selle /sɛl/	sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/	selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/	sellent /sɛl/
	imperfect2	sellasse /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/	sellasses /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/	sellât /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/	sellassions /sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /se.la.sjɔ̃/	sellassiez /sɛ.la.sje/ or /se.la.sje/	sellassent /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	selle /sɛl/	—	sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/	sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• selle
• desseller

Further reading

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

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Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

seller

1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
2. indefinite plural of selle m

Etymology 2

Noun

seller m

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

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Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

1. inflection of sell:
   1. masculine nominative/accusative singular
   2. feminine dative singular