# fello
## Fula
### Alternative forms

* (Maasina) ferro

### Etymology

Cognate with Serer ɓil (“mountain”).

### Noun

fello ngo (plural pelle ɗe)
* (Pular) mountain

#### Synonyms

* hooseere (Adamawa)
* haayre (Fouta-Toro)
* waamnde (Liptaako, Maasina)

### References

* Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin fellō (“criminal”). Doublet of fellone.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛl.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɛllo
* Hyphenation: fèl‧lo

### Adjective

fello (feminine fella, masculine plural felli, feminine plural felle)
* (literary) evil, wretched
* (obsolete) angry, frowning
* (obsolete) gloomy, melancholic

### Noun

fello m (plural felli)
* (literary, rare) wretch

### Further reading

* fello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* folle

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *fēlājō, from earlier Proto-Italic *θēlājō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(i)-l-éh₂-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Cognates include Sanskrit धयति (dhayati), Ancient Greek θηλή (thēlḗ), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (daddjan, “suckle”), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti). Related to fēmina, fīlius, fētus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfeːl.loː/, [ˈfeːlːʲoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfel.lo/, [ˈfɛlːo]

#### Verb

fēllō (present infinitive fēllāre, perfect active fēllāvī, supine fēllātum); first conjugation
* to suck, to suckle
* (vulgar) to fellate
** 1st century CE, Martial, Epigrams, section 2.50:Quod fellas et aquam potas, nil, Lesbia, peccas: qua tibi parte opus est, Lesbia, sumis aquam.Because you suck [cock] and drink water, Lesbia, you err in nothing: in just the part you ought to be, Lesbia, you're making use of the water.

##### Descendants

* Italian: fellare
* → English: fellate

##### See also

* irrumō

### Etymology 2

Uncertain; one common hypothesis is a borrowing from Frankish *falljō.
A derivation from fel (“bile”) has also been suggested (said by the Oxford English Dictionary to be “the most probable”).
A third hypothesis is a derivation as an obscene term of abuse from the verb in 'Etymology 1'.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfel.loː/, [ˈfɛlːʲoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfel.lo/, [ˈfɛlːo]

#### Noun

fellō m (genitive fellōnis); third declension
* (Medieval Latin) criminal, barbarian

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Old French: (from the nominative) fel, fels, feus, fal
** → Middle Dutch: fel
*** Dutch: fel
** → Middle English: fel, fell (or from Old English)
*** English: fell
* Old French: (from the accusative) felon, felun, feloun, felloun
** Middle French: felon
*** French: félon
** Norman: fflon
** Picard: fèlôn
** → Middle English: felun, feloun
*** Scots: felloun
*** English: felon
**** → Scots: felon, fellin
** → Galician: felón
** → Spanish: felón
* Italian: fello (nominative), fellone (accusative)
** → Sardinian: fellone
* Old Occitan: felon, felhon, fellon (obl.), fel, felh (nom.)
** Occitan: félon, fèl
** Catalan: felló, feylo, falló, felo, falo
*** Catalan: felló m, fellona f

### References

* ↑ “fello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ↑ fello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ “félon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* ↑ “felon, adj. and n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023
* ↑ Hall, Robert A. “Scabrous Etymology: English Felon and Italian Infinocchiare.” American Speech 55, no. 3 (1980): 231–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/455093.
* ↑ "fello", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* ↑ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “fel”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
* ↑ “fellone” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it