ello
- Pronunciation spelling ofhello.
FromLatinillum(“that”), from earlierolle, fromOld Latinollus(“he, that”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂el-(“beyond, other”).
ello m
- (archaic)he
- Synonyms:egli,lui,(archaic)elli
Jamaican Creole phrasebook
- IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ɛloː/,/ˈ(h)ɛlɔː/
- Hyphenation:e‧llo
ello
- hello
2000, Jennifer Keane-Dawes, “The cellular”, inThe 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. […]
Inherited fromLatinillud, neuter ofille. See alsolo.
ello
- (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)
Spanish personal pronouns
- 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.
- Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
- Ifle orles precedeslo,la,los, orlas in a clause, it is replaced withse (e.g.se lo dije instead of*le lo dije).
- Used primarily in Spain.
- Used only in rare circumstances.
ello m (uncountable)
- (psychoanalysis) (Freud's concept of)id
- “ello”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “ello”, inDiccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition,Royal Spanish Academy;Association of Academies of the Spanish Language,2023,→ISBN
- “ello”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish),Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española],2010
- “ello”, inDiccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua,2019
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “ello”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
