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ello

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

English

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Interjection

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ello

  1. Pronunciation spelling of hello.

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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ello m

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

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Jamaican Creole

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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

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Pronunciation

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

Interjection

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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. […]

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝo/ [ˈe.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains to Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈeʎo/ [ˈe.ʎo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃo/ [ˈe.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒo/ [ˈe.ʒo]

 

  • Syllabification: e‧llo

Pronoun

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ello

  1. (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)

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Spanish personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
first person singular yo me mí1
plural masculine2 nosotros nos nosotros
feminine nosotras nosotras
second person singular tuteo tú te ti1
voseo vos vos
formal3 usted le, se4 lo/la5 usted
plural familiar6 masculine2 vosotros os vosotros
feminine vosotras vosotras
formal/general3 ustedes les, se4 los/las5 ustedes
third person singular masculine2 él le, se4 lo él
feminine ella la ella
neuter ello7 lo ello
plural masculine2 ellos les, se4 los ellos
feminine ellas las ellas
reflexive — se sí1
  1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
  2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
  4. 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)
  5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
  6. Used primarily in Spain
  7. Used only in rare circumstances

Noun

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ello m (uncountable)

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

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