filia

See also: -filia and -fília

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Latin filia, Italian figlia.

Noun

filia (plural filias)

1. daughter

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Latin

Etymology

From fīlius (“son”). Displaced Proto-Italic *fuɣtēr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.li.a/, [ˈfiːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li.a/, [ˈfiːliä]

• Audio (Classical):

  (file)

Noun

fīlia f (genitive fīliae, masculine fīlius); first declension

1. daughter
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.219-220:

     Est mihi (sitque, precor, nostrīs diuturnior annīs)
     fīlia, quā fēlīx sospite semper erō.

     I have a daughter (and, I pray, may she live longer than my years); as long as she is safe I shall always be happy.

2. (by extension) any female offspring

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīlia	fīliae
Genitive	fīliae	fīliārum
Dative	fīliae	fīliīs fīliābus
Accusative	fīliam	fīliās
Ablative	fīliā	fīliīs fīliābus
Vocative	fīlia	fīliae

Synonyms

• (daughter): nata

Derived terms

• fīliola

Related terms

• fīliālis
• fīliaster
• fīliastra

• fīlietās
• fīliolus
• fīlius

Descendants

• Aragonese: filla
• Aromanian: hilji, hilje
• Asturian: fía
• Bourguignon: feille
• Catalan: filla
• Corsican: figlia
• Dalmatian: felja
• Extremaduran: ija
• Fala: filla
• Friulian: fie
• Galician: filla
• Istro-Romanian: fiľa
• Italian: figlia
• Ligurian: figgia
• Lorrain: feille
• Megleno-Romanian: il'ă
• Middle French: fille
• Mirandese: filha
• Norman: fil'ye, fille, fîle
• Occitan: filha
• Old French: fille
  • Middle French: fille
    • French: fille
      • Haitian Creole: fi
      • Louisiana Creole: fiy
  • Norman: fille, fil'ye
  • Walloon: feye
• Old Occitan: filha, filla, hilha
• Old Spanish: fija
  • Ladino: ija
  • Spanish: hija (see there for further descendants)
• Picard: file
• Piedmontese: fija
• Portuguese: filha
• Romanian: fie
• Romansch: figlia, feglia
• Sardinian: filla, fiza, fitza
• Sicilian: figghia, fiza
• Venetian: fia

References

• “filia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “filia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• filia 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)
• filia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to betroth one's daughter to some one: filiam alicui despondere
    
  • to give a dowry to one's daughter: dotem filiae dare
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonium dare
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui nuptum dare
    

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fīlia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilja
• Syllabification: fi‧lia

Noun

filia f

1. branch (location of an organisation with several locations)

   Synonyms: agenda, oddział

Declension

Declension of filia

	singular	plural
nominative	filia	filie
genitive	filii	filii/filij (archaic)
dative	filii	filiom
accusative	filię	filie
instrumental	filią	filiami
locative	filii	filiach
vocative	filio	filie

Further reading

• filia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• filia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Verb

filia

1. third-person singular present indicative of filiar
2. second-person singular imperative of filiar

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Spanish

Verb

filia

1. inflection of filiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative