CELLO
What does "CELLO" mean?
A large bowed string instrument of the violin family, played seated between the knees.
Meanings
- A bass member of the violin family, held upright between the legs and played with a bow. She tuned her cello before the rest of the quartet arrived.
Did you know?
- The name 'cello' is a fragment of 'violoncello', which packs a contradiction: it means roughly 'little big-viol', a diminutive ('-cello') stacked on top of an augmentative ('-one').
Word origin
Shortened from Italian 'violoncello', a diminutive of 'violone' ('large viol'); the apostrophe in the older spelling ''cello' marked the dropped first half of the word.
Remember it
CELLO is just the tail of 'violonCELLO' - the big viol you sit and cradle like a CELLo of sound.
A little poem
Held like grief itself,
the long bow draws one low note-
the room leans inward.
haiku
Wordplay
- The cellist kept telling the same joke at parties. People said hello; she always said 'cello' back.
What it teaches
The deepest voice in the room is rarely the loudest - it just refuses to be rushed.
Quick facts
What does CELLO mean?
A large bowed string instrument of the violin family, played seated between the knees.
Is CELLO a valid word?
Yes — CELLO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CELLO?
CELLO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CELLO come from?
Shortened from Italian 'violoncello', a diminutive of 'violone' ('large viol'); the apostrophe in the older spelling ''cello' marked the dropped first half of the word.
What can CELLO teach us?
The deepest voice in the room is rarely the loudest - it just refuses to be rushed.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.