elle

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: -elle, Elle, ellē, êlle, and élle

Corsican

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (that), from Old Latin olle (that). Cognates include Italian elle (they) and French elles (they).

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛlːe/
  • Hyphenation: el‧le

Pronoun

[edit]

elle f

  1. they (feminine)
  2. them (disjunctive)

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]

Danish

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

elle c

  1. indefinite plural of el

French

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

Inherited from Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

[edit]

elle f (third-person singular, plural elles, accusative la, dative lui, emphatic elle, possessive determiner son)

  1. she
    Je crois qu’elle est partie.
    I think she left.
  2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
    Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.
    That's my car. It is five years old.
  3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
    C’est à elle.
    It's hers.
Synonyms
[edit]
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

elle m (plural elles)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

Further reading

[edit]

Italian

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

elle f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
See also
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈel.le/
  • Rhymes: -elle
  • Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

[edit]

elle f pl

  1. (archaic) plural of ella
    Synonyms: esse, loro
Derived terms
[edit]

See also

[edit]

Latvian

[edit]
 elle on Latvian Wikipedia
Elle

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.[1]

Noun

[edit]

elle f (5th declension)

  1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
  2. (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)
    nonākt ellēto end up in hell
    elles krāsnsthe furnace of hell
    elles mocībasthe torments of hell
  3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
    elles karstumsinfernal heat
    elles troksnisinfernal noise
    elles darbsinfernal, terrible, toughwork
    elles mokasinfernal, horrible suffering

Declension

[edit]

Synonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

elle

  1. Alternative form of elne (ell)

Middle French

[edit]

Pronoun

[edit]

elle f

  1. she

Northern Sami

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈeːlle/

Verb

[edit]

ēlle

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Nynorsk

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

[edit]

Portuguese

[edit]

Pronoun

[edit]

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ele.

Spanish

[edit]
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Pronunciation

[edit]
 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/ [ˈe.ʝe]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈeʎe/ [ˈe.ʎe]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/ [ˈe.ʃe]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/ [ˈe.ʒe]

 

  • Syllabification: e‧lle

Noun

[edit]

elle f (plural elles)

  1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter
    Synonym: doble ele

Pronoun

[edit]

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun
    elle es muy alte
    they are very tall
    • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, translated by Raquel García Rojas, Cómo entender tu género: una guía práctica para explorar quién eres, Dos Bigotes, →ISBN:
      Meg-John ha notado que rara vez corrige a alguien si esa persona utiliza los pronombres incorrectos para referirse a elle en la presentación al comienzo de una conferencia.
      Meg-John has noticed that they rarely correct someone if that person uses the wrong pronouns to refer to them in the presentation at the beginning of a lecture.

See also

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Tagalog

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

  1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario

See also

[edit]

Turkish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

Adverb

[edit]

elle

  1. by hand, manually

Verb

[edit]

elle

  1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek