ello

See also: Ello, -ello, 'ello, and eļļõ

English

Interjection

ello

  1. Pronunciation spelling of hello.

Anagrams

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin illum (“that”), from earlier olle, from Old Latin ollus (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈel.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ello
  • Hyphenation: él‧lo

Pronoun

ello m

  1. (archaic) he
    Synonyms: egli, lui, (archaic) elli

Anagrams

Jamaican Creole

Jamaican Creole phrasebook
This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.
For other Jamaican Creole entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ɛloː/, /ˈ(h)ɛlɔː/
  • Hyphenation: e‧llo

Interjection

ello

  1. hello
    • 2000, Jennifer Keane-Dawes, “The cellular”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[1] (in Jamaican Creole):
      “Ello? Ello? Wappen man? Yu nuh know a who a talk to yu? Tek two guess. […] ”
      Hello? Hello? What's up, man? Do you know who you're speaking to? You have two guesses. […]

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illud, neuter of ille. See also lo.

Pronunciation

 

 

  • Syllabification: e‧llo

Pronoun

ello

  1. (rare, dated, literary) it, neuter third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun (used only to refer to facts, sets of things, and indefinite things that have been mentioned before; generally used with prepositions and rarely used as a subject, except in literary style)

Derived terms

See also

Spanish personal pronouns
Nominative Disjunctive Accusative Dative Comitative
First-person Singular yo mí me conmigo
Plural Masculine1 nosotros nos —
Feminine nosotras
Second-person Singular Tuteo tú tí te contigo
Voseo vos —
Formal2 Masculine1 usted le, se3 lo
Feminine la
Plural Familiar4 Masculine1 vosotros os
Feminine vosotras
Formal/general2 Masculine1 ustedes les, se3 los
Feminine las
Third-person Singular Masculine1 él le, se3 lo
Feminine ella la
Neuter ello5 lo
Plural Masculine1 ellos les, se3 los
Feminine ellas las
Reflexive — sí se consigo
  1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
  3. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g. se lo dije instead of *le lo dije).
  4. Used primarily in Spain.
  5. Used only in rare circumstances.

Noun

ello m (uncountable)

  1. (psychoanalysis) (Freud's concept of) id

Further reading

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