ello

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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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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, 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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Noun

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ello m (uncountable)

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

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