ello
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English[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ello
- Eye dialect spelling of hello.
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin illum, accusative form of ille (“that”), from earlier olle, from Old Latin ollus (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- (“beyond, other”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
ello m
- (archaic) he
Synonyms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin illud, neuter of ille. See also lo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ello
- 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).
See also[edit]
Spanish personal pronouns
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masc. | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
fem. | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal2 | usted | le | lo/la3 | usted | |||
plural | familiar4 | masc. | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
fem. | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general2 | ustedes | les | los/las3 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masc. | él | le | lo | él | |
fem. | ella | la | ella | ||||
neut. | ello5 | lo/la3 | ello | ||||
plural | masc. | ellos | les | los | ellos | ||
fem. | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
sing. & pl. | reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- 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.
- 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")
Noun[edit]
ello m (uncountable)
- (psychoanalysis) (Freud's concept of) id
Further reading[edit]
- “ello” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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- Italian lemmas
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- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
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