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

Synonyms

• violoncel c

Related terms

• cellist c

Inflection

Declension of cello

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

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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