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ille

Pronunciation: [ˈɪl.lɛ]

“ille” is a Latin word. Its 4 meanings in English:

determiner

  1. that, yon; those

pronoun

  1. that one; that (thing); those ones (in the plural); those (things); he, she, it
  2. he, she, it (third-person personal pronoun)

article

  1. the

In Latin

  1. Demonstrans rem non prope dictorem (haec res) nec prope auditorem (ista res).

Etymology

From Old Latin olle (“he, that”) (also ollus, olla), from Proto-Italic *olnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ol-no-s or *h₂l̥-no-s, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with Latin uls (“beyond”), alius (“other”), and alter (“the other”); Umbrian ulu (“to that place”), Old Church Slavonic лани (lani, “last year”, literally “in that (year)”). Initial i- from o- has no parallel case and owe to…

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