ello

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

See also

Italian personal pronouns
singular plural
first second second formal / polite5 third first second second formal / polite5 third
m or f m f m or f m f
nominative io tu Lei, Ella8 lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8 lei, ella8, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8 elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11 accusative / dative-reflexive mi, m', -mi, me9 ti, t', -ti, te9 ― si6, s', -si, se9, ci13 ci, c', -ci, ce9 vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9 ― si, s', -si, se9
accusative La, -La, L' lo, l', -lo, il4 la, l', -la Le, -Le li, -li le, -le
dative Le, -Le glie9 Loro10 loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
gli, -gli le, -le, gli2, -gli2
locative ― ci, c',
vi1, v'1 		― ci, c',
vi1, v'1
partitive ne, n' ne, n'
tonic12 prepositional-reflexive ― sé ― sé
oblique me te Lei lui, esso8 lei, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro,
essi8 elle8, esse8
1 Formal.
2 Informal.
3 Archaic.
4 Obsolete.
5 Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
6 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
7 Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
8 Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
9 Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
10 Used after verbs.
11 Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
12 Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.
13

Only in "ci si", replaces indefinite si (“one”) before reflexive si (“oneself”).

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. it, neuter third-person subject and disjunctive pronoun

Usage notes

  • 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 Dative Accusative Comitative
First-person Singular yo mí me conmigo
Plural Masculine1 nosotros nos —
Feminine nosotras
Second-person Singular Tuteo tú ti 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. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

Noun

ello m (uncountable)

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

Further reading

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