ello
Italian
Alternative forms
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
Anagrams
Jamaican Creole
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ɛloː/, /ˈ(h)ɛlɔː/
- Hyphenation: e‧llo
Interjection
ello
See also
- wah gwaan
- weh yuh a seh
- weh yuh deh pon
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝo/ [ˈe.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎo/ [ˈe.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃo/ [ˈe.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒo/ [ˈe.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒo
- Syllabification: e‧llo
Pronoun
ello
- (literary) 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
See also
Spanish personal pronouns
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- 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.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- 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)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
Further reading
- “ello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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