filare

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See also: filaré

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fiˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fi‧là‧re

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Late Latin fīlāre. Derivable from filo +‎ -are.

Verb

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filàre (first-person singular present fìlo, first-person singular past historic filài, past participle filàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in some meanings) avére or (intransitive in other meanings) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to spin (yarn)
  2. (transitive) to draw (wire)
  3. (transitive) to pay out (rope, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to trail (an oar in the water)
  5. (transitive, music) to trickle out, to drip (liquid)
  6. (transitive, music) to prolong, to sustain (a note)
  7. (intransitive) to spin a web or cocoon (of spiders, silkworms, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
  8. (intransitive) to be stringy [auxiliary avere]
  9. (intransitive) to trickle, to drip, to flow out in a thin stream [auxiliary avere]
  10. (intransitive) to race, to speed, to proceed quickly [auxiliary essere]
  11. (intransitive, nautical) to run (at a given speed; of a ship) [auxiliary essere]
  12. (intransitive, colloquial) to scram, to skedaddle, to vamoose [auxiliary essere]
  13. (intransitive, figurative) to unfold, to proceed in an orderly fashion, to go off without a hitch (of a speech, show, etc.) [auxiliary essere]
  14. (intransitive, uncommon) to purr (of a cat) [auxiliary avere]
  15. (intransitive, chiefly Sicilian, southern Italy) to flirt [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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un filare

From Late Latin fīlāris.

Noun

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filare m (plural filari)

  1. row, line, file, especially of trees or vines

Etymology 3

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From filo +‎ -are (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

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filare (plural filari)

  1. (relational) wire

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fiˈlaɾe/ [fiˈla.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: fi‧la‧re

Verb

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filare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of filar