cello

Etymology 1

A clipping of the original name violoncello, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle, forming diminutives”), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives”).

noun

1. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
   I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away. 2006 Nov. 22, Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant", 00:00:33
   Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up." 2020 Aug. 9, Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship", The Article

Etymology 2

Shortening of cellophane.

noun

1. cellophane
   Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent! 2011, Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?