sellary
sellary noun: a male prostitute. Also the obsolete spelling of salary.
Noun (1)
sellary (plural sellaries)
- A male prostitute.
- tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci1598, Richard Greenway, transl., Annals, translation of Ab excessu Divi Augusti historiarum libri by P. Cornelius Tacitus, published 1622, book VI, section i, page 121
- Others Are rauish’d hence…and…dealt away Vnto his Spintries, Sellaries, and Slaues.1603, Benjamin Jonson, Sejanus, act IV, scene v
Noun (2)
sellary (plural sellaries)
- A public gathering place with benches or stools for sitting on.
- Seppe anche da altri banditi à forza di tormenti, che per opra di Mataloni, e del fratello con tenerui anche mano il Perrone, il Graſſo, & altri Capi di banditi, che già s’erano auuelenate l’acque del ſotterraneo Formale di Napoli con metterui de i veleni, e del frumento, e fatte le debite...1650, James Howell, transl., An Exact Hiſtory of the late Revolutions in Naples; and of their Monſtrous Succeſſes, not to be parallel’d by any Antient or Modern Hiſtory., London: R. Lowndes at the...
Also used as
sellary is also the obsolete spelling of salary.
sellary is also the obsolete spelling of celery.
Forms of sellary
| plural | sellaries |
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Origin of sellary
Learned borrowing from Latin sellārius.
Borrowed from Italian sellaria.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Questions about sellary
- What does sellary mean?
- Sellary means a male prostitute.
- What part of speech is sellary?
- Sellary is a noun.
- What is the plural of sellary?
- The plural of sellary is sellaries.
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