sella

sella

1. inflection of sellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin sella.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈse.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ʎa]

sella f (plural selles)

1. saddle

• seller
• selló

• “sella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• Homophones: sellas, sellât

sella

1. third-person singular past historic of seller

• senlla, silla

Inherited from Latin situla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɟa/ [ˈs̺e.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɟa

sella f (plural sellas)

1. wooden conical vessel, reinforced with hoops, used for keeping or transporting fresh water

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sella”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: sèl‧la

sella f (plural selle)

1. saddle (horse, bicycle, motorcycle saddle)

• sellaio
• sellare
• sellatura
• selleria
• sellificio
• sellino

sella

1. inflection of sellare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• sella in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• sedda (ancient)

From Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, whence sedeō (“I sit”). The same formation as Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, Proto-Slavic *sedъlo.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsel.la/, [ˈs̠ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsel.la/, [ˈsɛlːä]

sella f (genitive sellae); first declension

1. seat, chair (one that is moveable unlike a sedīle)

   Synonyms: sedes, solium

2. (historical) A kind of open or enclosed sedan chair
3. (Late Latin) saddle
4. stool

First-declension noun.

• lectica, lecticula (litter); lecticarius (litter-bearer)

• “sella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Root
s-l-j
2 terms

From Arabic صَلَّى (ṣallā, “to pray”, also “to pray for somebody, to bless”). Regarding the e-vocalism and the verbal noun tislija there may have been a merger with Arabic سَلَّى (sallā, “to amuse, entertain, comfort”). See the doublet salla for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.la/

sella (imperfect jselli, verbal noun tislija)

1. (intransitive, + għal) to greet

   Synonym: sellem

Conjugation of sella
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	sellejt	sellejt	sella		sellejna	sellejtu	sellew
	f			selliet
imperfect	m	nselli	sselli	jselli		nsellu	ssellu	jsellu
	f			sselli
imperative			selli				sellu

sēlla

1. comparative degree of gōd

sella

1. inflection of sellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative