cello

See also: Cello, çello, -cello, and 'cello

English

A cello.

Etymology 1

Shortening of violoncello.

Alternative forms

• (dated) 'cello

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛloʊ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

Noun

cello (plural cellos or celli)

1. (music) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

Synonyms

• violoncello

Meronyms

parts of a cello

• back
• bout
  • upper bout
  • c-bout
  • lower bout
• bridge
• endpin, spike, tail spike
  • endpin stopper
• f-hole, sound hole
• fine tuner
• fingerboard
• front, top, belly, table
• neck
• purfling, edgework

• rib
  • upper rib
  • c-rib
  • lower rib
• saddle
• scroll
  • peg
  • pegbox
  • nut
• shoulder
• sound post
• string
• tailgut
• tailpiece
• waist

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cellist, celloist
• electric cello

• guitar cello
• mandocello

Translations

musical instrument

• Afrikaans: tjello
• Albanian: celo
• Amharic: ቫዮሊን (vayolin)
• Arabic: تْشِيلُو‎‎ (tšīlū)
• Armenian: թավջութակ (hy) (tʿavǰutʿak)
• Asturian: violonchelu m
• Basque: txelo
• Bavarian: Violoncello
• Belarusian: віяланчэ́ль f (vijalančélʹ)
• Bulgarian: виолончело (violončelo)
• Catalan: violoncel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大提琴 (daaih tàih kàhm)

  Mandarin: 大提琴 (zh) (dàtíqín)

• Chuvash: виолончель (violončelʹ)
• Corsican: viulunceddu
• Czech: violoncello n
• Danish: cello (da) c
• Dutch: cello (nl) m
• Esperanto: violonĉelo
• Estonian: tšello
• Faroese: sello f
• Finnish: sello (fi)
• French: violoncelle (fr) m
• Galician: violoncello (gl) m, violonchelo (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩელო (čelo)
• German: Cello (de) n, Violoncello (de) n
• Greek: βιολοντσέλο (el) n (violontsélo), τσέλο (el) n (tsélo)
• Hebrew: צ'לו‎‎ (he)
• Hungarian: cselló (hu), gordonka (hu)
• Icelandic: selló (is) n, knéfiðla (is) f
• Ido: violoncelo (io)
• Ilocano: tselo
• Indonesian: cello, violoncello, selo (id)
• Irish: dordveidhil f
• Italian: violoncello (it) m
• Japanese: チェロ (ja) (chero)
• Javanese: cello
• Korean: 첼로 (chello)
• Latin: violoncellum
• Latvian: čells
• Lithuanian: violončelė
• Low German: violoncello

  Dutch Low Saxon: cello

• Luxembourgish: cello
• Macedonian: виолончело n (violončelo)
• Malay: selo
• Malayalam: ചെല്ലോ (cellō)
• Marathi: चेलो m (celo)
• Mongolian: ᠸᠢᠦᠯᠦᠨᠼᠧᠯ (wiülüncēl)
• Norman: bâsse dé viole f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cello (no) m

  Nynorsk: cello m

• Occitan: violoncèl
• Pashto: رالیږونکي‎‎
• Persian: ویولنسل‎‎ (viyolonsel)
• Polish: wiolonczela (pl) f
• Portuguese: violoncelo (pt) m
• Quechua: chilu, chilu
• Romanian: violoncel (ro) n
• Russian: виолонче́ль (ru) f (violončélʹ)
• Saterland Frisian: Violoncello
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виоло̀нчело m

  Roman: violònčelo (sh) m

• Slovak: violončelo
• Slovene: čelo (sl) m, violončelo (sl) m
• Spanish: chelo (es) m, violonchelo (es) m
• Swahili: chelo
• Swedish: cello (sv) c
• Tagalog: biyolonselo, tselo
• Tamil: செலோ (celō)
• Telugu: సెల్లో (sellō)
• Thai: เชลโล (chaynloh)
• Turkish: viyolonsel (tr), çello (tr)
• Turkmen: sello
• Ukrainian: віолончель (violončelʹ)
• Urdu: وائلن نما ساز‎‎ (violen numa saaz)
• Uyghur: چوڭ ئىسكىروپكا‎‎ (chong iskiropka)
• Uzbek: sello, violonchel (uz)
• Vietnamese: đàn viôlôngxen, xelô
• Volapük: col (vo)
• Welsh: soddgrwth m, sielo
• West Frisian: sello
• Xhosa: icello
• Yiddish: טשעלא‎‎ (tshelo)

References

• 1999. The Cambridge Companion to the Cello. Robin Stowell. Pg. 1.

Etymology 2

Shortening of cellophane.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛloʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

Noun

cello (uncountable)

1. cellophane
   • 2011, Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?

     Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to^[sic] the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!

Anagrams

• Colle

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Danish

Noun

cello c (singular definite celloen, plural indefinite celloer)

1. cello

Inflection

Declension of cello

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

Synonyms

• violoncel c

Related terms

• cellist c

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cello m (plural cello's, diminutive cellootje n)

1. (music) cello

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian violoncello

Noun

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloer, definite plural celloene)

1. (music) a cello

References

• “cello” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian violoncello

Noun

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloar, definite plural celloane)

1. (music) a cello

References

• “cello” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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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