cello

See also Cello, -cello, and 'cello

English

Wikipedia

A cello.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtʃɛloʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

Noun

cello (plural cellos or celli)

1. (music) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings. (From lowest to highest C-G-D-A)

Synonyms

• violoncello

Meronyms

• bridge
• endpin
• f-hole
• fingerboard
• scroll
• sound post
• string
• tailpiece

Derived terms

• cellist

Translations

musical instrument

• Afrikaans: tjello (af)
• Albanian: celo (sq)
• Armenian: թավջութակ (hy) (t'avǰut'ak)
• Basque: txelo (eu)
• Bavarian: Violoncello
• Belarusian: віяланчэль (be) (viyalantchél')
• Bulgarian: виолончело (bg) (violončelo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大提琴 (cmn) (dàtíqín)

• Malay: selo (ms)
• Malayalam: ചെല്ലോ (ml)
• Chuvash: виолончель
• Czech: violoncello (cs) n
• Danish: cello (da) c
• Dutch: cello (nl) m
• Esperanto: violonĉelo (eo)
• Estonian: tšello (et)
• Finnish: sello (fi)
• French: violoncelle (fr) m
• Galician: violoncello (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩელო (ka) (ch'elo)
• German: Cello (de) n, Violoncello (de) n
• Greek: βιολοντσέλο (el) (violontsélo) n, τσέλο (el) (tsélo) n
• Hebrew: צ'לו (he)
• Hungarian: cselló (hu)
• Icelandic: selló (is) n, knéfiðla (is) f
• Ido: violoncelo (io)
• Ilocano: tselo
• Indonesian: cello (id)
• Irish: dordveidhil (ga) f
• Italian: violoncello (it) m
• Japanese: チェロ (ja)
• Javanese: cello (jv)
• Jèrriais: bâsse dé viole f
• Korean: 첼로 (ko)
• Latin: violoncellum (la)
• Latvian: čells (lv)
• Lithuanian: violončelė (lt)
• Low German: violoncello

  Dutch Low Saxon: cello

• Luxembourgish: cello (lb)
• Macedonian: виолончело (mk) (violónčelo) n
• Mandarin: 大提琴 (cmn)
• Marathi: चेलो (mr) (celo) m
• Norwegian: cello (no)

  Nynorsk: cello (nn)

• Occitan: violoncèl (oc)
• Polish: wiolonczela (pl) f
• Portuguese: violoncelo (pt) m
• Quechua: chilu (qu)
• Romanian: violoncel (ro) n
• Russian: виолончель (ru) (violončél') f
• Saterland Frisian: Violoncello
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виоло̀нчело (sh) m

  Roman: violònčelo (sh) m

• Slovak: violončelo (sk)
• Slovene: čelo (sl) m, violončelo (sl) m
• Spanish: chelo (es) m, violonchelo (es) m
• Swahili: chelo (sw)
• Swedish: cello (sv) c
• Tagalog: tselo (tl)
• Tamil: செலோ (ta) (celō)
• Telugu: సెల్లో (te) (sellō)
• Thai: เชลโล (th)
• Turkish: viyolonsel (tr), çello (tr)
• Turkmen: sello (tk)
• Ukrainian: віолончель (uk) (violončel′)
• Urdu: وائلن نما ساز (ur) (violen numa saaz)
• Uyghur: چوڭ ئىسكىروپكا (ug) (chong iskiropka)
• Uzbek: sello (uz), violonchel (uz)
• Vietnamese: đàn viôlôngxen (vi), xelô (vi)
• Volapük: col (vo)
• Welsh: soddgrwth (cy) m, sielo (cy)
• Yiddish: טשעלא (yi)

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Danish

Noun

cello c (singular definite celloen, plural indefinite celloer)

1. cello

Synonyms

• violoncel c

Related terms

• cellist c

Inflection

    Inflection of cello

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	cello	celloen	celloer	celloerne
genitive	cellos	celloens	celloers	celloernes

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Noun

cello m (plural cello's, diminutive cellootje)

1. (music) cello

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Swedish

Noun

cello c

1. (music) cello

Declension

Declension of cello

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cello	cellon	cellor	cellorna
genitive	cellos	cellons	cellors	cellornas

Related terms

• cellist