selo

See also: ŝelo and село

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlo]
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

selo n

1. village (used only for villages in Russia or in south-Slavic countries, for example Croatia)
   • 1874, M. Bogolyubov, Jaromír Hrubý (transl.), “Žhář”, in Lumír‎^[1], volume 2, page 288:

     Byl jsem a jsem dosud nejbohatším v sele Martynovce.

     I was and still am the richest one in the village of Martynovka.

Etymology 2

Verb

selo

1. neuter singular past participle of sít

Anagrams

• Elso, lose, osel, osle

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈselo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

selo (accusative singular selon, plural seloj, accusative plural selojn)

1. saddle

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

1. postage stamp
2. stamp, seal

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto selo, English saddle, French selle, German Sattel, Italian sella, Russian седло́ (sedló), Spanish silla., from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.lo/

Noun

selo (plural seli)

1. saddle
   • 1910, Mondo, page 74.

     Eutyches quik kuris a la stablo, prenis mulo, selizis ol hastoze, sideskis en la selo, e kavalkis a Maria-klostro.

     Eutyches quickly ran to the stable, took a mule, hastily saddled it, sat down on the saddle and rode to the monastery of Mary.

   • 2015, Jean Martignon, "Ivain o la kavaliero kun leono", in Kuriero Internaciona, No. 1, page 11.

     Il imperas ke on pozez nova selo a lua kavalo.

     He demands that a new saddle is put on his horse.

Derived terms

• desselizar (“to unsaddle”)
• selizar (“to saddle”)

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Portuguese

selo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.lu/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

1. seal (e.g., on a document)
2. stamp

Derived terms

• selinho

Related terms

• selar

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of selar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.lu/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Verb

selo

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Samoan

Samoan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : selo

Numeral

selo

1. zero

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *selo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sělo/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

1. a village
2. the country, countryside
3. rural area

Declension

Declension of selo

	singular	plural
nominative	sèlo	sȅla / sèla
genitive	sèla	sȇlā / sélā
dative	sèlu	sȅlima / sèlima
accusative	sèlo	sȅla / sèla
vocative	sèlo	sȅla / sèla
locative	sèlu	sȅlima / sèlima
instrumental	sèlom	sȅlima / sèlima

Derived terms

• sèljāk
• sèoskī
• naselje

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sijélo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěːlo/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

1. An evening party in the village.

Declension

Declension of selo

	singular	plural
nominative	selo	sela
genitive	sela	sela
dative	selu	selima
accusative	selo	sela
vocative	selo	sela
locative	selu	selima
instrumental	selom	selima