ello
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English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ello
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin illum (“that”), from earlier olle, from Old Latin ollus (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ello m
Anagrams
[edit]Jamaican Creole
[edit]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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ello
- hello
- 2000, Jennifer Keane-Dawes, “The cellular”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[1]:
- “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
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin illud, neuter of ille. See also lo.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: e‧llo
Pronoun
[edit]ello
- (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
[edit]See also
[edit]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 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- 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.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- 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)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
Noun
[edit]ello m (uncountable)
- (psychoanalysis) (Freud's concept of) id
Further reading
[edit]- “ello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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