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sella

sella · f

a seat

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sella — Lewis & Short

sella (ancient collat. form sedda, acc. to Scaur. p. 2252 P.), ae, f.dim.for sedla; root sed-; .sedes,

I a seat, settle, chair, stool (syn.: sedile, scamnum): viden' ut expalluit! datin' isti sellam, ubi assidat cito, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 32; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 28; id. Poen. 1, 2, 56: scabilla, sellas, solia, Cato, R. R. 10, 4; 157, 11: in sellā sedere, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104 (corresp. to sedes): fracta est patris sella, Petr. 136: altā deducere sellā, Juv. 3, 136 al.—

II Esp.

A Of a mechanic's work-stool: ipsum sellae atque operis et quaestus cottidiani locum, Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17: in foro sellam ponere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56.—

B Of a teacher's chair, Cic. Fam. 9, 18 fin.—

C Of a portable chair or sedan (different from the lectica, a litter made like a bed): aut sellā, aut lecticā transire, Suet. Claud. 25; so (opp. lectica) Dig. 32, 1, 49; Mart. 10, 10, 7; 11, 98, 12; simply sella, Suet. Aug. 53; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15; Juv. 1, 124 al.; called also sella gestatoria, Suet. Ner. 26; id. Vit. 16; Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 27; cf.: gestamen sellae, Tac. A. 14, 4; 15, 57.—

D Of a seat in a coach or wagon, Phaedr. 3, 6, 5.—

E Of a close-stool, Scrib. Comp. 193; 227; also called sella familiarica, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 4. —

F Of a saddle, Cod. Th. 8, 5, 47; Cod. Just. 12, 51, 12; Veg. 6, 6, 2; Vulg. Esth. 6, 8.—

G Esp., a magistrate's seat or chair (very freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85; id. Div. 1, 52, 119; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; 2, 1, 47, § 124; 2, 2, 38, § 94; Caes. B. C. 3, 20; Liv. 3, 11; 6, 15; Hor. S. 1, 6, 97 et saep.; also called sella curulis; v. curulis.—Prov.: duabus sellis sedere, to sit on two stools, i. e. to keep in with both parties, Laber. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 18 fin.; id. ap. Macr. S. 2, 3.

2. sella — Walde–Hofmann

sella, -ae f. „Stuhl, Sessel" (seit Cic., rom.; s. sellula, sellärius, sellulärius usw. unter sedeb): zu sedeo, Gdf. *sed-la; vgl. got: sitls, ags. seti, ahd. sezzal „Sessel“ (Kluge! s, Sessel), gr. (lakon.) &Aà „Sitz“ Hes. (*sed-la), Edpa ds. (*sed-rä, Lohmann Genus 15), gall. caneco-sedlon (Fick 114 298; Vorderglied unklar), ahd. satul, an. spdull „Sattel“ (Kluge!! s, Sattel), nsorb. sedio „Sitz“, aksl. selo … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sella, p. 1417]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sella (scan p. 1417; entry #2547).

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