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

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

aquel

1. that

• 'quel - contraction

Inherited from Spanish aquel (“that”).

• (Zamboanga) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈkel/ [ʔa.ˈkel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: a‧quel

aquél

1. that (far from both the speaker and the person addressed)

aquél

1. that (far from both the speaker and the person addressed)

• aquil

Inherited 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), 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, masculine plural aqueles, feminine plural aquelas)

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

• “aquel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “aquel”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• 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 Santamarina, 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 Santamarina, Ernesto X. 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. (also postpositive) that (over there; implying some distance)

   ¡Mira el barco aquel!

   Look at that boat! (over there)

		Demonstrative determiners
		proximal	medial	distal
singular	masculine	este	ese	aquel
	feminine	esta	esa	aquella
plural	masculine	estos	esos	aquellos
	feminine	estas	esas	aquellas

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