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English

Alternative forms

• hallo (UK old style)
• hilloa (obsolete)
• hullo (UK)

Etymology

Hello (first attested in 1826), from holla, hollo (attested 1588). This variant of hallo is often credited to Thomas Edison as a coinage for telephone use, but its appearance in print predates the invention of the telephone by several decades.

Ultimately from a variant of Old English ?al?, such as h?l?, which was used colloquially at the time similarly to how hey and hi are used nowadays. Thus, equivalent to a compound of hey and lo. Used when drawing attention to yourself.

Possibly influenced by Old Saxon halo!, imperative of hal?n (“to call, fetch”), used in hailing a ferryman, akin to Old High German hala, hola!, imperative forms of hal?n, hol?n (“to fetch”). More at hallo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??l??/, /h??l??/
• (US) enPR: h?-l?', h?-l?', IPA^(key): /h??lo?/, /h??lo?/, /?h?lo?/

• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

hello

1. A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

2. A greeting used when answering the telephone.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hello. This is Marsha. - Yes, Marsha.

3. A call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening, or if a telephone conversation may have been disconnected.
4. (colloquial) Used sarcastically to imply that the person addressed or referred to has done something the speaker or writer considers to be foolish.

5. (chiefly Britain) An expression of puzzlement or discovery.

Usage notes

• The greeting hello is among the most universal and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and nearly all walks of life and is unlikely to offend.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:hello.

Synonyms

• (greeting): See Thesaurus:hello
  • (Australia, informal) g'day, hey, hi,
  • (UK, informal) hallo, hi, hiya, ey up
  • (US, informal) hallo, hey, hi, howdy
  • (Ireland, informal) how's it going, hey, hi
  • (South Africa, informal) howzit
  • (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup, what's good
• (expression of puzzlement): See Thesaurus:wow

Antonyms

• (greeting): bye, goodbye

Derived terms

• hello girl
• hello there
• Hello World
• hello yourself, and see how you like it

Translations

See also

• Category:Greetings
• hello on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

hello (plural hellos or helloes)

1. "Hello!" or an equivalent greeting.

Synonyms

• greeting

Verb

hello (third-person singular simple present hellos, present participle helloing, simple past and past participle helloed)

1. (transitive) To greet with "hello".

Anagrams

• Holle

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

hello ngo (plural hellooji ?i)

1. a page
2. one side of a wall, a wall
3. a slap in the face

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æns?n?d?nt?l/

Noun

transcendental (plural transcendentals)

1. (obsolete) A transcendentalist.
2. (philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
   • 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity, State University of New York Press, page 72,

     In deference to Christian usage we can say that the transcendentals constitute the Logos within which everything has its being and according to which everything is made.

   • 2012, Lukas Soderstrom (translator), Jean Grondin, Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas, Columbia University Press, page 105,

     These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, "transcendentals" (often called the "universals") because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being.⁹⁶ A quarrel over these transcendentals even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these transcendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).

   • 2012, Jan Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought: From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez, BRILL, page 515,

     The medieval doctrine of the transcendentals is closely connected with a metaphysical conception of reality, but is there a science of being in William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347)?

   • 2015, Anthony Howard, Humanise: Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century, Wiley, page 70,

     Another fascinating thing about the transcendentals is that each is fully contained in the others. When you appreciate beauty, for example, you recognise the presence of goodness and truth. When you grasp the truth about something you experience a moment of beauty in, perhaps, the simplicity or power of the insight. When you observe goodness in the actions of another person you are seeing truth and beauty in operation.

Translations

Adjective

transcendental (comparative more transcendental, superlative most transcendental)

1. (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
   • 1985, J. N. Mohanty, The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy, Kluwer Academic (Martinus Nijhoff), page xiii,

     The best way to demonstrate the possibility of something is to show its actuality, for actuality implies possibility. At least since Kant, transcendental philosophies have been on the scene. However, such simple demonstration of the possibility of transcendental philosophy has not been effective and is not likely to be so — so strong is the presumption that transcendental philosophy just could not be possible, or, if it was possible earlier, it is not possible now.

   • 1999, Robert Stern, 4: On Kant's Response to Hume: The Second Analogy as Transcendental Argument, Robert Stern (editor), Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, 2003, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), Paperback, page 47,

     Whilst it was once held that transcendental arguments could provide a direct and straightforward refutation of scepticism, this view now seems over-optimistic.

   • 2007, Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, Chapter 1: Introduction Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, (editors), Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford University Press, page 1,

     Not only does Heidegger's early work stand within the framework of transcendental phenomenology as established by Husserl—even though it also contests and revises that framework—but that thinking also stands in a close relationship to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and specifically to the transcendental project, and modes of argument, of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

2. Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
3. Mystical or supernatural.
4. (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
   • 1975, Alan Baker, Transcendental Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 2nd Edition, page 1,

     The theory of transcendental numbers was originated by Liouville in his famous memoir^† of 1844 in which he obtained, for the first time, a class, très-étendue, as it was described in the title of the paper, of numbers that satisfy no algebraic equation with integer coefficients.

   • 2005, Juan G. Roederer, Information and Its Role in Nature, Springer, page 28,

     If the distribution of decimal digits of ${\displaystyle \pi }$ (or any other transcendental number) is truly random (suspected but not yet mathematically proven!), given any arbitrary finite sequence of whole numbers, that sequence would be included an infinite number of times in the decimal expansion of ${\displaystyle \pi }$.

5. (algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
   • 2006, Steven Roman, Field Theory, Springer, 2nd Edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 158, page 108,

     Suppose that ${\displaystyle F<E}$ is purely transcendental. Show that any simple extension of ${\displaystyle F}$ contained in ${\displaystyle E}$ (but not equal to ${\displaystyle F}$) is transcendental over ${\displaystyle F}$.

Antonyms

• (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients): algebraic
• (containing elements that are not the root of a polynomial): algebraic

Hypernyms

• (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients): irrational

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Transcendence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (philosophy):
  • Transcendentals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Epistemology#Idealism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Metaphysics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Critique of Pure Reason on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (algebra, number theory, field theory):
  • Transcendental number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Liouville number#Liouville numbers and transcendence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Field (mathematics)#Transcendence bases on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Field extension#Transcendental extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Transcendental extension on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
  • Transcendental Extension on Wolfram MathWorld

German

Adjective

transcendental (comparative transcendentaler, superlative am transcendentalsten)

1. Obsolete spelling of transzendental

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantal, from Latin transcendentalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trans.t??e.den?tal/

Adjective

transcendental m or n (feminine singular transcendental?, masculine plural transcendentali, feminine and neuter plural transcendentale)

1. transcendental

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /t?ans?enden?tal/, [t??ãns.??n?.d??n??t?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /t?ansenden?tal/, [t??ãn.s?n?.d??n??t?al]

Adjective

transcendental (plural transcendentales)

1. transcendental