ello

See also: Ello, -ello, 'ello, and eļļõ

English

Interjection

ello

1. Pronunciation spelling of hello.

Anagrams

• Loel

Italian

Alternative forms

• el

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

Anagrams

• olle

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

• 'ello, hello

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

• wah gwaan
• weh yuh a seh
• weh yuh deh pon

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illud, neuter of ille. See also lo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝo/ [ˈe.ʝo]

• 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]

 

• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo
• Rhymes: -eʎo
• Rhymes: -eʃo
• Rhymes: -eʒo

• Syllabification: e‧llo

Pronoun

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)

Derived terms

• en ello
• estar en ello

See also

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

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. 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.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. 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)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances

Noun

ello m (uncountable)

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

Further reading

• “ello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10