Etymograph

English

sellar

Sellar comes from Latin sellāris ‘of or belonging to a seat’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-1‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedleh₂1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedlā1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsella1‘seat, chair’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsellāris1‘of or belonging to a seat’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1969sellar1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sellar
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1969, Sidney Licht, Herman L. Kamenetz: “[…] has been reduced to only two basic types:…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-Wiktionary, English sellar‘to sit’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedleh₂Wiktionary, English sellarreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sedlāWiktionary, English sellarreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsellaWiktionary, English sellar‘seat, chair’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsellārisWiktionary, English sellar‘of or belonging to a seat’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1969sellarWiktionary, English sellar. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1969, Sidney Licht, Herman L. Kamenetz: “[…] has been reduced to only two basic types:…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

president, set, size, sit, sitting, method, chair, seat, session, resident, settle, nest, siege, niche, assess, possess, saddle, exodus, reside, subsidy, residue, residual, nye, sedan, insidious, sediment, dissident, prasad, cathode, soot, anode, beset, sedative, sedentary, setter, obsess, presidio, sate, sedate, presidium, 95 more

Today it means

adj Relating to the sella turcica.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sellar”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / sellar

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