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

• Ellá

Danish

Noun

elle c

1. plural indefinite of el

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/
• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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

• cézigue (argot)

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

• elleno

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 karstums‎ ― infernal heat

   elles troksnis‎ ― infernal noise

   elles darbs‎ ― infernal, terrible, toughwork

   elles mokas‎ ― infernal, horrible suffering

Declension

Synonyms

• pekle

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 Ꝇ/ꝇ.

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