A cello. Clipping ofvioloncello , the original name, fromItalian violoncello ( “ littleviolone ” ) , fromviolone ( “ an early form of thedouble bass ” ) +-cello ( “ -elle ” ,formingdiminutives ) ,violone ( “ bigviola ” ) itself being derived fromviola +-one ( “ -oon ” ,formingaugmentatives ) .
cello (plural cellos or ( rare ) celli )
Alarge unfretted stringed instrument of theviolin family withfour strings tuned (lowest tohighest )C -G -D -A and anendpin tosupport itsweight ,usually played with abow .2006 Nov. 22 , Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant ", 00:00:33:I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always playedguitar . I started out on thecello . Yeah, thecello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays thecello . Being a kid that played thecello sucked,cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with acello you're like a woundedgazelle on theSerengeti , man. Thebullies just smell you comingfrom a mile away . 2020 Aug. 9 , Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship ",The Article :Fitzgerald saw thatHemingway , oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to takecello lessons when growing up."Synonym: violoncello musical instrument
Afrikaans:tjello Albanian:celo Amharic:ቫዮሊን ( vayolin ) Arabic:تْشِيلُّو ( tšīllū ) Hijazi Arabic:تْشِيلُّو m ( tšēllu ) ,تْشِلُّو m ( tšillu ) Armenian:թավջութակ (hy) ( tʻavǰutʻak ) Asturian:violonchelu m Azerbaijani:violonçel (az) Basque:txelo Bavarian:Violoncello Belarusian:віяланчэ́ль f ( vijalančélʹ ) ,віялянчэ́ль f ( vijaljančélʹ ) Bulgarian:виолонче́ло n ( violončélo ) Catalan:violoncel (ca) m Chinese:Cantonese:大提琴 ( daai6 tai4 kam4 ) Hokkien:大提琴 ( tōa-thê-khîm ) Mandarin:大提琴 (zh) ( dàtíqín ) Chuvash:виолончель ( violonč̬elʹ ) Corsican:viulunceddu Czech:violoncello n Danish:cello (da) c Dutch:cello (nl) m Esperanto:violonĉelo Estonian:tšello (et) Faroese:sello f Finnish:sello (fi) French:violoncelle (fr) m Galician:violoncello (gl) m ,violonchelo (gl) m Georgian:ჩელო ( čelo ) ,ვიოლონჩელი ( violončeli ) German:Cello (de) n ,Violoncello (de) n Greek:βιολοντσέλο (el) n ( violontsélo ) ,τσέλο (el) n ( tsélo ) Greenlandic:agiarsuaq Hebrew:צֶ׳לוֹ m ( chelo ) Hindi:सेलो (hi) ( selo ) Hungarian:cselló (hu) ,gordonka (hu) ,kisbőgő (hu) Icelandic:selló (is) n ,knéfiðla (is) f Ido:violoncelo (io) Ilocano:tselo Indonesian:selo (id) Irish:dordveidhil f Italian:violoncello (it) m Japanese:チェロ (ja) ( chero ) ,ヴィオロンチェロ ( vioronchero ) Javanese:cello Kazakh:виолончель ( violonçel ) Korean:첼로 ( chello ) ,비올론첼로 ( biollonchello ) Kyrgyz:виолончель (ky) ( violoncel ) Latin:violoncellum Latvian:čells m Lithuanian:violončelė f Low German:violoncello Dutch Low Saxon:cello Luxembourgish:Cello Macedonian:виолончело n ( violončelo ) Malay:selo Malayalam:ചെല്ലോ ( cellō ) Marathi:चेलो m ( celo ) Mongolian:виолончель ( violončelʹ ) ,морин хийл ( morin xiil ) Mongolian:ᠸᠢᠦᠯᠦᠨᠼᠧᠯ ( wiülüncēl ) Norman:bâsse dé viole f Norwegian:Bokmål:cello (no) m Nynorsk:cello m Occitan:violoncèl Pashto:رالیږونکي Persian:ویولنسل ( viyolonsel ) Piedmontese:violonsel m Polish:wiolonczela (pl) f Portuguese:violoncelo (pt) m Quechua:chilu ,chilu Romanian:violoncel (ro) n Russian:виолонче́ль (ru) f ( violončélʹ ) Saterland Frisian:Violoncello Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:виоло̀нчело m Roman:violònčelo (sh) m Slovak:violončelo n Slovene:čelo (sl) m ,violončelo (sl) m Spanish:chelo (es) m ,violonchelo (es) m Swahili:chelo Swedish:cello (sv) c Tagalog:biyolonselo ,tselo Tajik:виолончел ( violončel ) Tamil:செலோ ( celō ) Telugu:సెల్లో ( sellō ) Thai:เชลโล ( chen-lôo ) Turkish:viyolonsel (tr) ,çello (tr) Turkmen:wiolonçel Ukrainian:віолонче́ль f ( violončélʹ ) Urdu:وائلن نما ساز ( violen numa saaz ) Uyghur:چوڭ ئىسكىروپكا ( chong iskiropka ) Uzbek:sello ,violonchel (uz) Vietnamese:vi-ô-lông-xen ,xe-lô Volapük:col (vo) Welsh:soddgrwth m ,sielo West Frisian:sello Xhosa:icello Yiddish:טשעלאָ ( tshelo )
Robin Stowell (1999 ),The Cambridge Companion to the Cello ,page 1 Shortening ofcellophane .
cello (uncountable )
cellophane 2011 , Ava Carroll-Brown,Where Is Your Mother? :Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to[sic ] the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped withcello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent! cello inan
( proscribed ) cello Synonym: biolontxelo “cello ”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy ] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language ] cello c (singular definite celloen ,plural indefinite celloer )
cello Shortening ofvioloncello , fromItalian violoncello . Influenced byGerman Cello .
IPA (key ) : /ˈtʃɛ.loː/ ,/ˈsɛ.loː/ Hyphenation:cel‧lo cello m (plural cello's ,diminutive cellootje n )
cello FromItalian violoncello .
cello m (definite singular celloen ,indefinite plural celloer ,definite plural celloene )
cello FromItalian violoncello .
cello m (definite singular celloen ,indefinite plural celloar ,definite plural celloane )
cello Unadapted borrowing fromItalian cello .
cello n (uncountable )
cello cello c
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