quegli

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkweʎ.ʎi/
  • Rhymes: -eʎʎi
  • Hyphenation: qué‧gli

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

quegli

  1. masculine plural of quello
Usage notes
  • Used before a vowel or an impure consonant.

Further reading

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Italian quelli, via palatalization of /ll/ before /i/ (cf. begli < belli), from Vulgar Latin *eccum illī, alternative nominative singular of Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, from Latin eccum + ille.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

quegli m sg (literary)

  1. (subject) used to refer to someone distant in terms of space or time from the speaker; that (person)
Usage notes
  • Chiefly used as subject, quello is its disjunctive form.[1]

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ quegli in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana