selo

S1E1L1O1

noun

A village, in various Slavic regions.

OriginProto-Slavic *selo →
UncommonScrabble 4
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

selo1

nounselo (plural selos or sela)

plural selos · plural sela

  1. A village, in various Slavic regions.

    Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.

    1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194

SELO2

noun
  1. abbreviationmolecular biologyAbbreviation of selenoprotein O.

Origin

  1. Proto-Slavic*selo
  2. Englishselo

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

More words from Proto-Slavic

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

losesolesloeelos
Cite this entry
APA

selo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selo

MLA

“selo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “selo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/selo.

Source: selo on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.