seller

See also: Seller

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/ enPR: sĕl-ər
Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Homophone: cellar

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.

Derived terms

terms derived from seller (1)

bookseller
dramseller
fishseller
printseller
rumseller
seller's market
slopseller
superseller
toyseller

terms derived from seller (2)

bestseller
megaseller

Translations

someone who sells

Albanian: shitës (sq) m, shitëse (sq) f
Arabic: بَائِع‎ m (bāʾiʿ), بَائِعَة‎ f (bāʾiʿa)
Armenian: վաճառող (hy) (vačaṙoł)
Azerbaijani: satıcı (az)
Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı)
Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca), гандля́р m (handljár), гандля́рка f (handljárka)
Bengali: বিক্রেতা (bikreta)
Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
Burmese: ရောင်းသူ (raung:su)
Catalan: venedor (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 賣方／卖方 (zh) (màifāng), 賣主／卖主 (zh) (màizhǔ)
Czech: prodavač (cs) m, prodavačka (cs) f, prodejce (cs) m, prodejkyně f, prodávající (cs) m or f
Danish: sælger (da) c, sælgerinde f (female), sælgerske c (female), forsælger c, forsælgerske f (female)
Dutch: verkoper (nl) m, verkoopster (nl) f
Esperanto: vendisto, virvendisto (male), vendistiĉo (male, neologism), vendistino (female)
Estonian: müüja
Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi)
French: vendeur (fr) m, vendeuse (fr) f
Friulian: venditôr m
Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli)
German: Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)
Ancient: πωλητής m (pōlētḗs), πωλήτρια f (pōlḗtria), (suffix) -πώλης m (-pṓlēs)
Greenlandic: -erniaq
Hebrew: מוֹכֵר‎ (he) m (mokhér), מוֹכֶרֶת‎ f
Hindi: बेचने वाला m (becne vālā), विक्रेता (hi) m (vikretā)
Hungarian: eladó (hu), árus (hu)
Ido: vendisto (io), vendistulo (io) (male), vendistino (io) (female)
Indonesian: penjual (id)
Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
Japanese: 売り手 (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
Kazakh: сатушы (kk) (satuşy)
Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (nĕək lŭək)
Korean: 판매인(販賣人) (panmaein), 파는 사람 (paneun saram)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: firoşkar (ku), firoşer (ku)
Kyrgyz: сатуучу (ky) (satuuçu)
Lao: ຜູ້ຂາຍ (phū khāi)
Latin: vēnditor m, vēnditrīx f
Latvian: pārdevējs (lv) m, pārdevēja f
Lithuanian: pardavėjas (lt) m, pardavėja f
Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
Malay: penjual (ms)
Malayalam: വ്യാപാരി (ml) (vyāpāri), വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ m (vilppanakkāraṉ)
Middle English: sellere
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: худалдагч (mn) (xudaldagč)
Norman: vendeux m, vend'rêsse f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: selger (no) m, selgerinne m or f (female), forselger m
Nynorsk: seljar m, seljarinne f (female), forseljar m
Occitan: vendeire (oc) m, vendeira f
Pashto: بايع‎ (ps) m (bāye'), خرڅوونکی‎ m (xarčawunkay), پرولونکی‎ m (prolunkay)
Persian: فروشنده‎ (fa) (forušande)
Polish: sprzedawca (pl) m, sprzedawczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f
Romanian: vânzător (ro) m, vânzătoare (ro) f
Russian: продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc), продавщи́ца (ru) f (prodavščíca), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec), торго́вка (ru) f (torgóvka), ве́ндор (ru) m (véndor), ве́ндор (ru) m (vɛ́ndor) (vendor, neologism)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прода̀ва̄ч m, продава̀чица f
Roman: prodàvāč (sh) m, prodavàčica (sh) f
Slovak: predavač m, predavačka f, predajca m
Slovene: prodajalec m, prodajalka f
Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï)
Spanish: vendedor (es) m, vendedora (es) f
Swahili: mwuzaji
Swedish: försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female), säljare (sv) c, säljerska c (female)
Tagalog: tagapagbili
Tajik: фурӯшанда (tg) (furüšanda)
Tatar: сатучы (tt) (satuçı)
Thai: ผู้ขาย (pûu-kǎai)
Turkish: satıcı (tr)
Turkmen: satyjy
Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja), торго́вець m (torhóvecʹ)
Urdu: بچنے والا‎ m (becne vālā)
Uyghur: ساتقۇچى‎ (satquchi)
Uzbek: sotuvchi (uz)
Vietnamese: người bán
Volapük: selan (vo), hiselan (male), jiselan (female)
Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער‎ m (farkoyfer), פֿאַרקויפֿערין‎ f (farkoyferin)

something which sells

Swedish: säljare (sv) c

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

Obsolete spelling of cellar

Anagrams

Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sellerie.

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

celery

Declension

Inflection of seller (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	seller	sellerid
accusative	selleri	sellerid
genitive	selleri	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

References

seller in Sõnaveeb

French

Etymology

selle +‎ -er

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 C^ie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
  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	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	seller
present participle or gerund¹	simple	sellant /sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /se.lɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

selle
desseller

Middle English

Noun

seller

Alternative form of sellere

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +‎ -er

Verb

seller

(Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
sellyi m (“saddler”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seller

indefinite plural of selle m or f
indefinite plural of selle m

Noun

seller m

form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

inflection of sell:
1. masculine nominative/accusative singular
2. feminine dative singular

seller

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

References

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

Norman

Etymology

Verb

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

Noun

Verb

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Pennsylvania German

Determiner