selo

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

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.

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

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

selo

1. neuter singular past active participle of sít

   Synonym: silo

• “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), 2008–2026

• Elso, lose, osel, osle

Borrowed from Latin sella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈselo/

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• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: se‧lo

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

1. saddle

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

selo m (plural selos)

1. postage stamp
2. stamp, seal

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.lo/

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.

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlo/ [ˈsɛ.lo]
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Syllabification: se‧lo

sèlo (plural selo-selo)

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

• sélo (Standard Malay)

• “selo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

selo

1. nonstandard spelling of séla, romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

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

selo(Palembang)

1. gap
2. chance; opportunity

   Synonym: loka'

3. spare time

• semelo

selo(Palembang)

1. ellipsis of ado selo (“to have time”)

   Synonym: sempet

• H. U. A. Zulkifly (2007), “SELO”, in Kamus sederhana bahasa Palembang [A simple dictionary of the Palembang language], 2nd edition (in Indonesian), Tangerang: DPC Kerukunan Keluarga Palembang, page 207

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

• Hyphenation: se‧lo

selo m (plural selos)

1. seal (e.g., on a document)
3. stamp (paper used to pay postage)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: se‧lo

selo

1. first-person singular present indicative of selar

• “selo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “selo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Samoan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : selo

selo

1. zero

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

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

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

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

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

     Over there, far away, far away from the sea,
     Over there lies the village of mine, over there lies Serbia.

   Bolje je biti neko u selu nego niko u gradu. ― It's better to be somebody in a village than nobody in a city. (paraphrased quote by Julius Caesar)

2. the country, countryside

   Selo hvali, a u gradu živi. ― Speak well of the countryside, but live in the city. (proverb)

   Ljubav je na selu ― Farmer Wants a Wife (Croatian version)

• sèljāk
• sèoskī
• naselje

• “selo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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

• sijélo (Ijekavian)

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

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

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

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

selo

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈse.lo]

selo

1. (transitive) to slice or cut right through

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