-ello

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (masculine, morpheme) suffix used to form noun diminutives from nouns (including proper nouns) and sometimes adjectives and verbs, often with a meliorative or hypocoristic sense
  2. (masculine, morpheme) this suffix was often pluralized in the formation of Italian surnames, in this case indicating a progenitor who was either endearing, the youngest of two or more with the same name, a man of small stature, or ironically a man of very large stature

Con il trattino come
-èl‧lo
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɛl.lo/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin -ellus.

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