selo

See also: śelo, śěło, ŝelo, село, and SELO

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

selo (plural selos or sela)

1. A village, in various Slavic regions.
   • 1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194:

     Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.

Anagrams

• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, Sole, elos, leos, lose, sloe, sole

Czech

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

selo n

1. village (used only for villages in East Slavic and South Slavic countries)

   Synonym: vesnice

   • 1874, M. Bogolyubov, “Žhář”, in Jaromír Hrubý, transl., 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.

Declension

Declension of selo (hard neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	selo	sela
genitive	sela	sel
dative	selu	selům
accusative	selo	sela
vocative	selo	sela
locative	sele, selu	selech
instrumental	selem	sely

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

selo

1. neuter singular past active participle of sít

   Synonym: silo

Further reading

• “selo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “selo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “selo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Anagrams

• Elso, lose, osel, osle

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

1. postage stamp
2. stamp, seal

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, number 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”)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch cello, shortening of violoncello, from Italian violoncello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlo/
• Hyphenation: sè‧lo

Noun

sèlo (first-person possessive seloku, second-person possessive selomu, third-person possessive selonya)

1. (music) cello: a large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

Alternative forms

• sélo (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• selis

 

Further reading

• “selo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

selo

1. Nonstandard spelling of séla. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

Portuguese

selo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo. Cognate with Galician selo and Spanish sello.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.lu/

• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Verb

selo

1. first-person singular present indicative of selar

Samoan

Samoan cardinal numbers

	0	1  >
Cardinal : selo

Numeral

selo

1. zero

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

1. a village
   • 1916, “Tamo Daleko”, Đorđe Marinković (lyrics), Corfu:

     Tamo daleko, daleko od mora,
     Tamo je selo moje, tamo je Srbija.

     There, far away, far from the sea,
     There is the village of mine, there is Serbia.

2. the country, countryside
3. rural area

   Ljubav je na selu ― (TV broadcast "Farmer Wants a Wife" in Croatia)

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

Further reading

• “selo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 2

Reflects Proto-Slavic *sědlo, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”), with a sense development similar to Polish posiedzenie, Latin sessio, English sitting.

Alternative forms

• sijélo (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

1. social call, visit
2. rural evening social gathering, sometimes featuring traditional music and amusements

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselo/ [ˈse.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: se‧lo

Verb

selo

1. inflection of ser:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with lo
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈse.lo]

Verb

selo

1. (transitive) to slice or cut right through

Conjugation

Conjugation of selo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	toselo	foselo	miselo
2nd	noselo	niselo
3rd	Masculine	oselo	iselo, yoselo†
Feminine	moselo
Neuter	iselo
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh