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cello

See also: Cello, çello, -cello, and 'cello

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A cello.

Etymology 1Edit

A clipping of the original name violoncello, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle, forming diminutives”), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives”).

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NounEdit

cello (plural cellos or (rare) celli)

  1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
    • 2006 Nov. 22, Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant", 00:00:33:
      I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.
    • 2020 Aug. 9, Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship", The Article:
      Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up."
    Synonym: violoncello
MeronymsEdit
parts of a cello
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DescendantsEdit
  • → Tokelauan: helo
TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Robin Stowell (1999) The Cambridge Companion to the Cello, page 1

Etymology 2Edit

Shortening of cellophane.

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NounEdit

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!

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NounEdit

cello c (singular definite celloen, plural indefinite celloer)

  1. cello

InflectionEdit

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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EtymologyEdit

Shortening of violoncello, from Italian violoncello. Influenced by German Cello.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛ.loː/, /ˈsɛ.loː/
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  • Hyphenation: cel‧lo

NounEdit

cello m (plural cello's, diminutive cellootje n)

  1. cello

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Italian violoncello.

NounEdit

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloer, definite plural celloene)

  1. cello

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Italian violoncello.

NounEdit

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloar, definite plural celloane)

  1. cello

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from Italian cello.

NounEdit

cello n (uncountable)

  1. cello

DeclensionEdit

declension of cello (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cello celloul
genitive/dative (unui) cello celloului
vocative celloule

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NounEdit

cello c

  1. cello

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cello 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cello cellon cellor, celli cellorna
Genitive cellos cellons cellors, cellis cellornas

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