# cello
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of violoncello, the original name, 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).

#### Alternative forms

* (dated) 'cello

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

#### Noun

cello (plural cellos or (rare) celli)
* 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

##### Meronyms

* back
* bout
** upper bout
** c-bout
** lower bout
* bridge
* endpin, spike, tail spike
** endpin stopper
* f-hole, sound hole
* fine tuner
* fingerboard
* front, top, belly, table
* neck
* purfling, edgework
* rib
** upper rib
** c-rib
** lower rib
* saddle
* scroll
** peg
** pegbox
** nut
* shoulder
* sound post
* string
* tailgut
* tailpiece
* waist

##### Derived terms

* cellist, celloist
* cellolike
* cello player
* electric cello
* guitar cello
* guitar-cello
* mandocello
* violoncello

##### Descendants

* → Tokelauan: helo

##### Translations
#### References

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

### Etymology 2

Shortening of cellophane.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈsɛloʊ/
* Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

#### Noun

cello (uncountable)
* cellophane
** 2011, Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?:Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!

### Anagrams

* Colle

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃelo/ [t͡ʃe.lo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: ce‧llo

### Noun

cello inan
* (proscribed) cello
    Synonym: biolontxelo

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “cello”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

## Danish
### Noun

cello c (singular definite celloen, plural indefinite celloer)
* cello

#### Synonyms

* violoncel c

#### Related terms

* cellist c

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtʃɛ.loː/, /ˈsɛ.loː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cel‧lo

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* cellist

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: selo
* → Papiamentu: chèlo

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Italian violoncello.

### Noun

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

### References

* “cello” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Italian violoncello.

### Noun

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

### References

* “cello” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian cello.

### Noun

cello n (uncountable)
* cello

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

cello c
* cello

#### Related terms

* cellist