sellar

Meaning

  1. to stamp
  2. to seal (place a seal on a document)
  3. to seal (close with a seal or hermetically)
  4. to terminate, finish, end
  5. (Argentina) to seal (hotly fry or cook a piece of meat for a short time)

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
se‧llar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/seˈʝaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin sigillāre. Compare Portuguese selar, Catalan segellar, French sceller, Italian suggellare. Cf. also the borrowed doublet sigilar.

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