ello

See also: Ello, -ello, 'ello, and eļļõ

English

Interjection

ello

1. Pronunciation spelling of hello.

Anagrams

• Loel

Italian

Alternative forms

• el

Etymology

From Latin illum (“that”), from earlier olle, from Old Latin ollus (“he, that”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.lo/
• Rhymes: -ello
• Hyphenation: él‧lo

Pronoun

ello m

1. (archaic) he

   Synonyms: egli, lui, (archaic) elli

Anagrams

• olle

Jamaican Creole

Jamaican Creole phrasebook

This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness. For other Jamaican Creole entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Alternative forms

• 'ello, hello

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɛloː/, /ˈ(h)ɛlɔː/
• Hyphenation: e‧llo

Interjection

ello

1. hello
   • 2000, Jennifer Keane-Dawes, “The cellular”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in Jamaican Creole):

     “Ello? Ello? Wappen man? Yu nuh know a who a talk to yu? Tek two guess. […] ”

     Hello? Hello? What's up, man? Do you know who you're speaking to? You have two guesses. […]

See also

• wah gwaan
• weh yuh a seh
• weh yuh deh pon

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illud, neuter of ille. See also lo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝo/ [ˈe.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʝo/ [ˈe.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʎo/ [ˈe.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʃo/ [ˈe.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈeʒo/ [ˈe.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -eʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: e‧llo

Pronoun

ello

1. 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)

Derived terms

• en ello
• estar en ello

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				Nominative	Disjunctive	Dative	Accusative	Comitative
First-person	Singular			yo	mí	me		conmigo
	Plural	Masculine1		nosotros		nos		—
		Feminine		nosotras
Second-person	Singular	Tuteo		tú	ti	te		contigo
		Voseo		vos	—
		Formal2	Masculine1	usted		le, se3	lo
			Feminine				la
	Plural	Familiar4	Masculine1	vosotros		os
			Feminine	vosotras
		Formal/general2	Masculine1	ustedes		les, se3	los
			Feminine				las
Third-person	Singular	Masculine1		él		le, se3	lo
		Feminine		ella			la
		Neuter		ello5			lo
	Plural	Masculine1		ellos		les, se3	los
		Feminine		ellas			las
	Reflexive			—	sí	se		consigo

1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
3. 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).
4. Used primarily in Spain.
5. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

Noun

ello m (uncountable)

1. (psychoanalysis) (Freud's concept of) id

Further reading

• “ello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “ello”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
• “ello”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “ello”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “ello”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]