From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

ella

1. she

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

ella

1. she

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ʎa]

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ella (plural elles)

1. she

• edda, illa, idda

From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlːa/
• Hyphenation: el‧la

ella f

1. she
2. her (disjunctive)

• “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Old Norse ella.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛtla], [ˈɪtla]
• (Suðuroy) IPA^(key): [ˈɪlːa]

ella

1. or

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

ella o

1. (Maasina, Pulaar) flaw, blemish, vice, defect

   elle (Maasina Plural)

   ellaaji (Pulaar Plural)

   allaaru (Maasina)

• D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elligar. Compare ellegar. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aljaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛtla/
• Rhymes: -ɛtla

ella

1. else, or else, otherwise

   Synonyms: annars, ellegar

ella

1. or

   Synonyms: eða, eður, ellegar

From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.la/

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• Rhymes: -ella
• Hyphenation: él‧la

ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)

1. (literary, subject form) she

   Synonym: lei

• The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favor of the oblique form lei.

• alle

From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelːa/

·ella

1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.

ella f

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ela.

ella

1. to move towards

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

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• Syllabification: e‧lla

ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural ellos)

1. she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
2. it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)

• “él”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɬa/

ella

1. perhaps, maybe (colloquial form of efallai)