elle

elle c

1. plural indefinite of el

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

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• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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

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.

• cézigue (argot)

elle m (plural elles)

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

• “elle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.le/, [ˈɛl̺l̺e]
• Stress: èlle
• Hyphenation: el‧le

elle f (invariable)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, kappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.le/, [ˈel̺l̺e]
• Stress: élle
• Hyphenation: el‧le

elle f pl

1. (archaic) plural of ella

   Synonyms: esse, loro

• elleno

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

elle f (5th declension)

1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
2. (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)

   nonākt ellē ― to end up in hell

   elles krāsns ― the furnace of hell

   elles mocības ― the torments of hell

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

• pekle

elle

1. Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

elle f

1. she

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlle/

ēlle

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

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

1. Obsolete spelling of ele

elle f (plural elles)

1. Name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously was considered a letter.

• doble ele

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

elle

1. by hand, manually

elle

1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek