fío

See also: fio and fi'o

Galician

Alternative forms

• fiu

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese fio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from Latin fīlum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.o̝/, /ˈfiʊ̯/

Noun

fío m (plural fíos)

1. thread
   • 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega

     vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno

     all of it is written in a paragraph and a hand of paper, and sewn with white linen thread

2. string; filament; wire
3. linen
4. edge (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)

   Synonym: gume

5. top or a sierra

   Synonym: cume

6. ridge board or beam

   Synonyms: crucel, cume, cumio

Derived terms

• fieiro
• fío do lombo (“spine, backbone”)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “fio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fío”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Noun

fío m (plural s, feminine fía, feminine plural fías)

1. Eye dialect spelling of filho, representing Caipira Portuguese.

   Synonym: fio

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Spanish

Verb

fío

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of fiar.