different between secle vs selle

English

Etymology

From Latin saeculum. Compare French siècle. See secular.

Noun

secle (plural secles)

1. (obsolete) A century.
   • 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism

     Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's life-time, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years in the genealogies.

English

Noun

selle (plural selles)

1. Obsolete spelling of sell
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)

     When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.

Asturian

Verb

selle

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

Estonian

Pronoun

selle

1. genitive singular of see

French

Etymology

From Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedl?, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/
• Homophones: celle, celles, scelle, scelles, scellent, sel, sellent, selles, sels

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle (for riding)
2. commode (chair containing a chamber pot)

   Synonym: chaise percée

3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)

Synonyms

• (saddle): (Louisiana) soutadaire

Derived terms

• sellerie
• sellier
• seller

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• elles

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Noun

selle f

1. plural of sella

Middle English

Adjective

selle

1. Alternative form of selly

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle

Descendants

• French: selle

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [?s?l.l?]

Noun

selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

Etymology 2

From Low German selle.

Noun

selle m (definite singular sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

1. (historical) a miner
2. (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy

Etymology 3

From Old Norse selja.

Verb

selle (present tense seller)

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

References

• “selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [?s?l.l?] (example of pronunciation)

Noun

selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

References

• “selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

selle

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

Spanish

Verb

selle

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sellar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sellar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sellar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sellar.

West Frisian

Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

selle c (plural [please provide])

1. (rare) February

   Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

Further reading

• “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011