seller
See also: Seller
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er. Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).
Noun
seller (plural sellers)
- Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
- Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- Something which sells.
- Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
- 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:
- Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.
Derived terms
terms derived from seller (1)
terms derived from seller (2)
Translations
someone who sells
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Etymology 2
Alternative forms.
Estonian
Declension
| Declension of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | seller | sellerid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | selleri | ||
| genitive | sellerite | ||
| partitive | sellerit | sellereid | |
| illative | sellerisse | selleritesse sellereisse | |
| inessive | selleris | sellerites sellereis | |
| elative | sellerist | selleritest sellereist | |
| allative | sellerile | selleritele sellereile | |
| adessive | selleril | selleritel sellereil | |
| ablative | sellerilt | selleritelt sellereilt | |
| translative | selleriks | selleriteks sellereiks | |
| terminative | sellerini | selleriteni | |
| essive | sellerina | selleritena | |
| abessive | sellerita | selleriteta | |
| comitative | selleriga | selleritega | |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ.le/, /se.le/
Audio (file) - Homophone: sceller
Verb
seller
- to saddle
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.
- Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.
Conjugation
Conjugation of seller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | seller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sellant /sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /se.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sellé /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | selle /sɛl/ |
selles /sɛl/ |
selle /sɛl/ |
sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/ |
sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
sellent /sɛl/ |
| imperfect | sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellais /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellait /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ |
sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/ |
selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/ |
sellaient /sɛ.lɛ/ or /se.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sellai /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
sellas /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sella /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sellâmes /sɛ.lam/ or /se.lam/ |
sellâtes /sɛ.lat/ or /se.lat/ |
sellèrent /sɛ.lɛʁ/ or /se.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | sellerai /sɛl.ʁe/ |
selleras /sɛl.ʁa/ |
sellera /sɛl.ʁa/ |
sellerons /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
sellerez /sɛl.ʁe/ |
selleront /sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerais /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerait /sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
sellerions /sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
selleriez /sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /se.lə.ʁje/ |
selleraient /sɛl.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | selle /sɛl/ |
selles /sɛl/ |
selle /sɛl/ |
sellions /sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /se.ljɔ̃/ |
selliez /sɛ.lje/ or /se.lje/ |
sellent /sɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | sellasse /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ |
sellasses /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ |
sellât /sɛ.la/ or /se.la/ |
sellassions /sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /se.la.sjɔ̃/ |
sellassiez /sɛ.la.sje/ or /se.la.sje/ |
sellassent /sɛ.las/ or /se.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | selle /sɛl/ |
— | sellons /sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /se.lɔ̃/ |
sellez /sɛ.le/ or /se.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “seller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Norman
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pennsylvania German
Declension
| Declension of seller | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
| nominative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
| dative | sellem, sem | sellere, sellre, seller | sellem, sem | selle |
| accusative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
Determiner
seller
- that
- 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
- sell Haus datt driwwe
- that house over there
- […]
- In sellem alde Glaawe maag en bissel Waahret schtecke.
- In that old belief there may be a bit of truth.
- sell Haus datt driwwe
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:seller.
- 1954, Albert F. Buffington, A Pennsylvania German grammar, pages 32 and 81:
Declension
| Declension of seller | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
| nominative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
| dative | sellem, sem | sellere, sellre, seller | sellem, sem | selle |
| accusative | seller | selle, selli | sell | selle, selli |
References
- Earl C Haag, Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar (2010), page 204
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