chele

chele

1. plural of chela

• leceh, leech, leche, Elche, Leech

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛle
• Hyphenation: chè‧le

chele f

1. plural of chela

From Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰeː.leː/, [ˈkʰeːɫ̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.le/, [ˈkɛːle]

chēlē f (genitive chēlēs); first declension

1. claw-shaped mechanism, trigger

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “chele”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chele in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• chele in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “chele”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “chele”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃele/ [ˈt͡ʃe.le]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: che‧le

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl celic (“green thing”).

chele m (plural cheles)

1. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) sleep (in the corner of the eye)

   Synonyms: lagaña, legaña

2. (Dominican Republic) cent (currency)

   Synonym: centavo

From a vesre form of leche.

chele f (uncountable)

1. (vesre) milk
2. (vulgar, slang, Uruguay, Argentina, vesre) semen

chele m or f by sense (plural cheles)

1. (El Salvador, colloquial) a fair-skinned person; a white person
2. (Honduras, Nicaragua, colloquial) a blond-haired person

   Synonym: rubio

chele m or f (masculine and feminine plural cheles)

1. (El Salvador, colloquial) fair-skinned
2. (El Salvador, colloquial) white
3. (Honduras, Nicaragua, colloquial) blond-haired

   Synonym: rubio

• “chele”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “chele” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010