filiolus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fīlius (“son”) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈli.o.lus/, [fiːˈlʲiɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.o.lus/, [fiˈliːolus]

Noun

fīliolus m (genitive fīliolī, feminine fīliola); second declension

1. young son

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīliolus	fīliolī
Genitive	fīliolī	fīliolōrum
Dative	fīliolō	fīliolīs
Accusative	fīliolum	fīliolōs
Ablative	fīliolō	fīliolīs
Vocative	fīliole	fīliolī

Related terms

• fīliola
• fīlius

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Emilian: fiôl
  • Ligurian: figeu
  • Lombard: fieul
  • Old Piedmontese: figlol
    • Piedmontese: fieul
  • Romansch: figliol
  • Venetian: fióło, fiol
• Gallo-romance:
  • French: filleul
  • Norman: filieu
• Occitano-romance:
  • Catalan: fillol
• Italo-romance
  • Corsican: figliolu
  • Italian: figliolo
  • Sicilian: figghiolu
• Spanish: hijuelo
• Aromanian: hiljor

References

• “filiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “filiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• filiolus 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)
• filiolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.