different between selle vs belle

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge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

English

Etymology

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/

Noun

belle (plural belles)

1. An attractive woman.

   In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

2. A fellow gay man.

Translations

See also

References

• belle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Lebel

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen

French

Etymology

From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Homophones: bel, belles

Adjective

belle

1. feminine singular of beau

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: belle
• English: Belle

Noun

belle f (plural belles)

1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
2. (Louisiana) girlfriend

Derived terms

• Belle au bois dormant
• se faire la belle

Coordinate terms

(girlfriend):

• beau
• blonde
• femme
• gars
• homme

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Verb

belle

1. inflection of bellen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

1. beautiful

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Adjective

belle

1. feminine plural of bello

Noun

belle f

1. plural of bella

Latin

Etymology

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)

Adverb

bell? (comparative bellius, superlative bellissim?)

1. well, neatly, perfectly
2. prettily, delightfully

Related terms

• bellus
• bonus

References

• belle in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• belle in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• belle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Pronunciation

Adjective

belle

1. feminine singular of bieau
2. feminine singular of biau

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bell?, from Proto-Germanic *bell?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bel.le/, [?be?.?e]

Noun

belle f

1. bell
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: belle
  • Scots: bell
  • English: bell
    • ? Fiji Hindi: belo
    • ? Japanese: ?? (beru)

Turkish

Verb

belle

1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek