aquel

From Vulgar Latin *eccum ille (“that one”). Akin to Spanish aquel and Portuguese aquele.

• IPA^(key): /aˈkel/
• Syllabification: a‧quel
• Rhymes: -el

aquel

1. that

• aquil

From Old Galician-Portuguese aquel, from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille.

• IPA^(key): /aˈkel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: a‧quel

aquel m sg (feminine aquela, masculine plural aquelis, feminine plural aquelas)

1. that (far from the speaker and listener)

aquel m sg (feminine aquela, masculine plural aquelis, feminine plural aquelas)

1. that one (far from the speaker and listener)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 54

• aquele (dialectal, reintegrationist)
• aquil (central)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aquel, from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille. Cognate with Portuguese aquele and Spanish aquel, among others.

• IPA^(key): /aˈkel/ [ɑˈkeɫ]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: a‧quel

aquel (feminine aquela)

1. that (far from the speaker and listener)

   Quen é aquel home? ― Who is that man?

aquel m (plural aqueles, feminine aquela, feminine plural aquelas, neuter aquilo) (definite demonstrative pronoun)

1. that over there, yon (far from the speaker and the listener)

   Quen é aquel? ― Who is that [man or boy over there]?

   Quen é aquela? ― Who is that [woman or girl over there]?

   Que é aquilo? ― What is that [thing/animal/plant over there]?

The demonstrative contracts with the prepositions de (“of”) and en (“in”):

• daquel, daquela, daqueles, daquelas, daquilo
• naquel, naquela, naqueles, naquelas, naquilo

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

aquel m (plural aqueles, feminine aquela, feminine plural aquelas)

1. (informal) je ne sais quoi, an imprecise positive quality

   Esa muller tenche un aquel que me pon parvo. ― That woman has a je ne sais quoi that makes me crazy.

2. (informal) cause, circumstance

   Co aquel de que non se falan non se fixo o que había que facer. ― With the excuse that they don't speak each other what must be done wasn't done.

3. (informal) thingy; used instead of any other noun, either because the speaker don't want to mention it, or because they cann't find the appropriate word

   Synonyms: conto, couso

   Pásame o aquel de furar. ― Hand me that thingy of piercing.

• aquelar
• co aquel

• aqueste
• aquestar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aquel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aquel”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aquel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aquel”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aquel”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• aqueth (Gascony)

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille.

• IPA^(key): /a.kɛl/

• Audio (Languedoc):

  (file)

aquel (f aquela, m pl aqueles, f pl aquelas)

1. this, this one

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille.

• IPA^(key): /aˈkel/ [aˈkel]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: a‧quel

aquel (feminine aquella, masculine plural aquellos, feminine plural aquellas)

1. that (over there; implying some distance)

aquel

1. (demonstrative) alternative spelling of aquél

• The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.

• “aquel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025