celloとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

A clipping of the original name violoncello, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle, forming diminutives”), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives”).

別の表記

• (dated) 'cello

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

名詞

cello (plural cellos or (まれに) celli)

1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
   • 2006 Nov. 22, Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant", 00:00:33:

     I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.

   • 2020 Aug. 9, Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship", The Article:

     Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up."

   Synonym: violoncello

Meronyms

派生語

派生した語

• → Tokelauan: helo

参照

• Robin Stowell (1999) The Cambridge Companion to the Cello, page 1

語源 2

Shortening of cellophane.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləʊ/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛloʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛləʊ

名詞

cello (uncountable)

1. cellophane
   • 2011, Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?:

     Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to^[sic] the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!

アナグラム

• Colle

名詞

'cello ‎(複数形 'cellos または 'celli)

1. Abbreviation of violoncello.
   • 1858 March 13th, Dwight’s Journal of Music (compiled book publication), volume XII, page 396

     The Octet is a very brilliant composition for a double quartet, i. e. four violins, two violas, and two ‛celli, — a small symphony in fact.

   • 1930, The Musical Times, issue 71, page 126, column 2

     The composer appears to have envisaged players of varying degree of ability, and the first ‛cello gets the cream.