noun
Meaning 1
Someone who plays the cello.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cellist
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈt͡ʃɛlɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
someone who plays a violoncello
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: violoncellist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musician, instrumentalist, player
Narrower terms: Casals, Pablo Casals
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English cello Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English cellist From cello + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: թավջութակահար (tʻavǰutʻakahar) — person who plays the cello
- Belarusian: віяланчалі́ст (vijalančalíst) — person who plays the cello
- Belarusian: віяланчалі́стка (vijalančalístka) — person who plays the cello
- Bulgarian: виолончели́ст (violončelíst) — person who plays the cello
- Bulgarian: виолончели́стка (violončelístka) — person who plays the cello
- Catalan: violoncel·lista — person who plays the cello
- Chinese Mandarin: 大提琴手 (dàtíqínshǒu) — person who plays the cello
- Chinese Mandarin: 大提琴家 (dàtíqínjiā) — person who plays the cello
- Czech: violoncellista — person who plays the cello
- Czech: violoncellistka — person who plays the cello
- Danish: cellist — person who plays the cello
- Danish: violoncellist — person who plays the cello
- Dutch: cellist — person who plays the cello
- Dutch: violoncellist — person who plays the cello
- Esperanto: violonĉelisto — person who plays the cello
- Estonian: tšellist — person who plays the cello
- Estonian: tšellomängija — person who plays the cello
- Finnish: sellisti — person who plays the cello
- Finnish: sellonsoittaja — person who plays the cello
- French: violoncelliste — person who plays the cello
- German: Cellist — person who plays the cello
- German: Cellistin — person who plays the cello
- German: Cellospieler — person who plays the cello
- German: Cellospielerin — person who plays the cello
- Greek: βιολοντσελίστας (violontselístas) — person who plays the cello
- Greek: τσελίστας (tselístas) — person who plays the cello
- Greek: τσελίστα (tselísta) — person who plays the cello
- Hungarian: csellista — person who plays the cello
- Hungarian: gordonkás — person who plays the cello
- Icelandic: sellóleikari — person who plays the cello
- Indonesian: selis — person who plays the cello
- Irish: dordveidhleadóir — person who plays the cello
- Italian: violoncellista — person who plays the cello
- Japanese: チェリスト (cherisuto) — person who plays the cello
- Kazakh: виолончельші (violonçelşı) — person who plays the cello
- Korean: 첼리스트 (chelliseuteu) — person who plays the cello
- Lithuanian: violončèlininkas — person who plays the cello
- Lithuanian: violončèlininkė — person who plays the cello
- Macedonian: виолончели́ст (violončelíst) — person who plays the cello
- Macedonian: виолончели́стка (violončelístka) — person who plays the cello
- Norwegian Bokmål: cellist — person who plays the cello
- Norwegian Nynorsk: cellist — person who plays the cello
- Polish: wiolonczelista — person who plays the cello
- Polish: wiolonczelistka — person who plays the cello
- Portuguese: violoncelista — person who plays the cello
- Russian: виолончели́ст (violončelíst) — person who plays the cello
- Russian: виолончели́стка (violončelístka) — person who plays the cello
- Slovak: violončelista — person who plays the cello
- Slovak: violončelistka — person who plays the cello
- Spanish: violonchelista — person who plays the cello
- Spanish: violoncelista — person who plays the cello
- Spanish: chelista — person who plays the cello
- Swedish: cellist — person who plays the cello
- Swedish: cellospelare — person who plays the cello
- Turkish: çellocu — person who plays the cello
- Ukrainian: віолончелі́ст (violončelíst) — person who plays the cello
- Ukrainian: віолончелі́стка (violončelístka) — person who plays the cello
- Volapük: colan — person who plays the cello
- Volapük: hicolan — person who plays the cello
- Volapük: jicolan — person who plays the cello