seller

See also: Seller

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophones: cellar, sellar

Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +‎ -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell +‎ -er (patient) (sense 2). 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.

   • 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2023:

     De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.

   • 2020 November 24, Rishi Iyengar, “Amazon wins legal fight against eBay over alleged seller poaching”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Amazon secured a major legal victory in its fight with rival eBay over seller poaching, with an arbitration panel ruling in its favor earlier this month, according to court filings by the company on Tuesday.

2. Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

   • 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:

     Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.

Derived terms

terms derived from seller (1)

• betelseller
• birdseller
• bookseller
• breadseller
• dramseller
• fishseller
• foodseller
• fruitseller
• handseller
• leatherseller
• printseller
• pyramid seller
• ragseller
• rumseller
• seller's market
• seller's remorse
• slopseller
• streetseller
• superseller
• teleseller
• toyseller

terms derived from seller (2)

• bestseller
• megaseller
• panic seller
• short seller
• system seller

Translations

someone who sells

• Albanian: shitës (sq) m, shitëse (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï)

• Arabic: بَائِع m (bāʔiʕ), بَائِعَة f (bāʔiʕa)
• Armenian: վաճառող (hy) (vačaṙoġ)
• Azerbaijani: satıcı (az)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradawščýca), гандля́р m (handljár), гандля́рка f (handljárka)
• Bengali: বিক্রেতা (bn) (bikreta)
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
• Burmese: ရောင်းသူ (raung:su)
• Catalan: venedor (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: prodavač (cs) m, prodavačka (cs) f, prodejce (cs) m, prodejkyně f, prodávající (cs) m or f
• 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)
• Estonian: müüja
• Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr) m, vendeuse (fr) f
• Friulian: venditôr m
• Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli)
• German: Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)

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

• Greenlandic: -erniaq
• Hebrew: מוֹכֵר (he) m (mokhér), מוֹכֶרֶת f
• Hindi: बेचने वाला m (becne vālā), विक्रेता (hi) m (vikretā)
• Hungarian: eladó (hu), árus (hu)
• Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (io) (male), vendistino (io) (female)
• Indonesian: penjual (id)
• Ingrian: mööjä
• Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
• Japanese: 売り手 (ja) (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
• Kazakh: сатушы (satuşy)
• Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (nĕək lŭək)
• Korean: 판매인(販賣人) (panmaein), 파는 사람 (paneun saram)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firoşkar (ku), firoşer (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сатуучу (ky) (satuucu)
• Lao: ຜູ້ຂາຍ (phū khāi)
• Latin: vēnditor m, vēnditrīx f
• Latvian: pārdevējs (lv) m, pārdevēja f
• Lithuanian: pardavėjas (lt) m, pardavėja f
• Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
• Malay: penjual (ms)
• Malayalam: വ്യാപാരി (ml) (vyāpāri), വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ m (vilppanakkāraṉ)
• Marathi: विक्रेता m (vikretā), विकणारा m (vikṇārā), विकणारी f (vikṇārī)
• Middle English: sellere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: худалдагч (mn) (xudaldagč)

• 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
• Pashto: بايع (ps) m (bāye'), خرڅوونکی m (xarčawunkay), پرولونکی m (prolunkay)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: فُروشَنْدِه (fa) (forušande), فُروخْتار (fa) (foruxtâr), بائِع (bâ'e')

• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прода̀ва̄ч m, продава̀чица f

  Latin: prodàvāč (sh) m, prodavàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: predavač m, predavačka f, predajca m
• Slovene: prodajalec m, prodajalka f
• 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
• Tajik: фурӯшанда (tg) (furüšanda)
• Tatar: сатучы (tt) (satuçı)
• Thai: ผู้ขาย (pûu-kǎai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr), bayi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: بایع (bayiʼ), صاتیجی (satıcı)

• Turkmen: satyjy
• Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja), торго́вець m (torhóvecʹ)
• Urdu: بیچْنے والا m (becne vālā), بائِع m (bāi')
• Uyghur: ساتقۇچى (satquchi)
• Uzbek: sotuvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người bán
• Volapük: selan (vo), hiselan (male), jiselan (female)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער m (farkoyfer), פֿאַרקויפֿערין f (farkoyferin)

something which sells

• Polish: produkt w sprzedaży m
• Swedish: säljare (sv) c

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar.

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sellerie.

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

Declension of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		seller	sellerid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	selleri
genitive			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

References

• seller in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Etymology

From selle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.le/ ~ /se.le/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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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:

     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, on	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/ or /se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	selleriez /sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /se.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 usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle English

Noun

seller

1. alternative form of sellere

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

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

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)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German selber (“same”). Cognate with German selber, derselbe, Dutch zelf, dezelfde, English self. For the development into a demonstrative, compare English the same in the sense of “the aforementioned”.

Pronoun

seller

1. that, that one

Declension

Declension of seller

	singular				plural
	m	f	n
nominative	seller	selle, selli	sell		selle, selli
dative	sellem, sem	sellere, sellre, seller	sellem, sem		selle
accusative	seller	selle, selli	sell		selle, selli

Determiner

seller

1. that
   • 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:

     sell Haus datt driwwe

     that house over there

     […]

     In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.

     In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.

Declension

Declension of seller

	singular				plural
	m	f	n
nominative	seller	selle, selli	sell		selle, selli
dative	sellem, sem	sellere, sellre, seller	sellem, sem		selle
accusative	seller	selle, selli	sell		selle, selli

Determiner

seller

1. dative feminine of seller: that, to that

References

• Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204