# selo
## English
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

### Noun

selo (plural selos or sela)
* 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: [ˈsɛlo]
* Rhymes: -ɛlo
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

#### Noun

selo n
* village (used only for villages in East Slavic and South Slavic countries)
    Synonym: vesnice
** 1874, M. Bogolyubov, “Žhář”, in Jaromír Hrubý, transl., Lumír‎, 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
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

selo
* 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), 2008–2025

### Anagrams

* Elso, lose, osel, osle

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sella.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈselo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

### Noun

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

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

### Noun

selo m (plural selos)
* postage stamp
* 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: /ˈse.lo/

### Noun

selo (plural seli)
* 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: /ˈsɛlo/
* Hyphenation: sè‧lo

### Noun

sèlo (plural selo-selo)
* (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 (Johor-Riau)

#### 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
* Nonstandard spelling of séla. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

## Portuguese
### 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: /ˈse.lu/
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

#### Noun

selo m (plural selos)
* seal (e.g., on a document)
* stamp

##### Derived terms

* selinho

##### Related terms

* selar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ.lu/
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

#### Verb

selo
* first-person singular present indicative of selar

## Samoan
### Numeral

selo
* zero

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sělo/
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

#### Noun

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)
* 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.
* the country, countryside
* rural area
    Ljubav je na selu ― (TV broadcast "Farmer Wants a Wife" in Croatia)

##### Derived terms

* sèljāk
* sèoskī
* naselje

#### Further reading

* “selo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### 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: /sěːlo/
* Hyphenation: se‧lo

#### Noun

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)
* social call, visit
* rural evening social gathering, sometimes featuring traditional music and amusements

##### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈselo/ [ˈse.lo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Syllabification: se‧lo

### Verb

selo
* inflection of ser:
** second-person singular imperative combined with lo
** second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈse.lo]

### Verb

selo
* (transitive) to slice or cut right through

#### Conjugation
### References

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