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Elle

Elle

See also: elle, êlle, ellē, and -elle

English

Proper noun

Elle

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Arielle

Estonian

Proper noun

Elle

  1. A female given name, short form of Helena (Helen) and Eliisabet.

German

Etymology

Old High German elina

Pronunciation

Noun

Elle f (genitive Elle, plural Ellen)

  1. (anatomy) ulna
  2. ell

Northern Sami

Etymology

Short form of Norwegian and Swedish Ellen, or of other names beginning with El-..

Proper noun

Elle

  1. A female given name.

Related terms

elle

elle

See also: Elle, êlle, ellē, and -elle

Danish

Noun

elle c

  1. plural indefinite of el

French

Etymology

From Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

elle f (plural elles)

  1. she
    Je crois qu'elle est partie.
    I think she left.
  2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
  3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
    C’est à elle.
    It's hers.

Synonyms

Related terms

Noun

elle m (plural elles)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin el (name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛlːe/, [ˈɛl̺.l̺e]
  • Hyphenation: èl‧le

Noun

elle f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

Etymology 2

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈelːe/, [ˈel̺.l̺e]
  • Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f

  1. plural of ella

Derived terms


Latvian

Elle

Etymology

A borrowing from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English ****). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.[1]

Noun

elle f (5th declension)

  1. (theology) **** (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
  2. (Christianity) **** (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)
    nonākt ellē ― to end up in ****
    elles krāsns ― the furnace of ****
    elles mocības ― the torments of ****
  3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
    elles karstumsinfernal heat
    elles troksnisinfernal noise
    elles darbsinfernal, terrible, toughwork
    elles mokasinfernal, horrible suffering

Declension

Synonyms

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

  1. she

Northern Sami

Verb

elle

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Portuguese

Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ele

Spanish

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ll/ll.
  2. The name of the Latin-script letter /.

Synonyms

  • doble ele

Turkish

Etymology

el + le (from el and ile)

Adverb

elle

  1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

  1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek