filete

See also: fileté

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French filet (“soft piece of meat”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɛ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɛ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɛ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɛ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

1. (Portugal) fillet (a strip or compact piece of meat or fish)

   Synonym: (Brazil) filé

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French filet (“small string”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈle.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈle.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈle.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈle.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

1. very thin or narrow string (of light, water, solid material, etc.)
2. ornamental stripe or ribbon

   Synonyms: debrum, orla

3. (architecture) listel, fillet: straight and flat frame of a building, often separating the flutings of a shaft

   Synonym: listel

4. (anatomy) soft branch of a nerve
5. (botany) the part of the stamen holding the anther

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French filet, from Middle French filet, from Old French filet (“strip, thread, ligament or filament”), from fil (with the diminutive suffix -et), from Latin fīlum (“string or thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰis-lom, from the root *gʷʰi-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlete/ [fiˈle.t̪e]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

1. fillet, steak

   Synonym: bife

2. thread of a screw

   Synonym: rosca

3. (architecture) fillet (space between two flutings in a shaft)

   Synonym: listel

Derived terms

• darse el filete
• filete miñón
• filetear

 

Further reading

• “filete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014