seller

See also: Seller

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/
• 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 (bāʔiʕ)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca), гандля́р m (handljár)
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč)
• Catalan: venedor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賣方／卖方 (zh) (màifāng), 卖方 (zh) (màifāng), 賣主／卖主 (zh) (màizhǔ), 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)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (male), vendistino (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)
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• Latin: vēnditor m, vēnditrīx f
• 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
• Southern Altai: садучы (saduçı)
• 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
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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

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

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French

Etymology

selle +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.le/, /se.le/

• Audio:

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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.

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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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Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

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