# sella
## Asturian
### Verb

sella
* inflection of sellar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈse.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈse.ʎa]

### Noun

sella f (plural selles)
* saddle

#### Derived terms

* seller
* selló

### Further reading

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: sellas, sellât

### Verb

sella
* third-person singular past historic of seller

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* senlla, silla

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin situla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseɟa/ [ˈs̺e.ɟɐ]
* Rhymes: -eɟa

### Noun

sella f (plural sellas)
* wooden conical vessel, reinforced with hoops, used for keeping or transporting fresh water

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛlla
* Hyphenation: sèl‧la

#### Noun

sella f (plural selle)
* saddle (horse, bicycle, motorcycle saddle)

##### Related terms

* sellaio
* sellare
* sellatura
* selleria
* sellificio
* sellino

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sella
* inflection of sellare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* sedda (ancient)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

sella f (genitive sellae); first declension
* seat, chair (one that is moveable unlike a sedīle)
    Synonyms: sedes, solium
* (historical) A kind of open or enclosed sedan chair
* (Late Latin) saddle
* stool

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Coordinate terms

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

#### Derived terms

* bisellium
* duābus sellīs sedeō
* sella curulis
* sella fertoria
* sella gestatoria
* sella muliebris
* sellārius
* sellula

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: shalë
* Aromanian: shauã
* Asturian: siella, siya
* Catalan: sella
* Dalmatian: siala
* English: sella
* French: selle
* Friulian: siele
* Galician: sela
* → Hebrew: אסלה (asla)
* Greek: σέλα (séla)
* Italian: sella
* Occitan: sèla
* Portuguese: sela
* Romanian: șa, șale
* Romansch: sella, siala, seala, sela
* Sardinian: sedha, sedda
* Sicilian: seḍḍa
* Spanish: silla
** → Cebuano: síya
** → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: siya
** → Galician: silla
** → Hiligaynon: siya
** → Ladino: siya
** → Portuguese: silha
** → Southeastern Tepehuan: xiir
** → Tagalog: silya, siya
** → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: siya
* Venetan: sela, seła

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sedeō (> Derivatives > sella 'seat, chair')”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 551-2

### Further reading

* “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

## Maltese
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛl.la/

### Verb

sella (imperfect jselli, verbal noun tislija)
* (intransitive, + għal) to greet
    Synonym: sellem

#### Conjugation
## Old English
### Adjective

sēlla
* comparative degree of gōd

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Verb

sella
* inflection of sellar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative