filare

See also: filaré

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Late Latin fīlāre, from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Compare French filer, Portuguese fiar, Spanish hilar.

Verb

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

    Conjugation of filàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	filàre
auxiliary verb		avére1, èssere2	gerund		filàndo
present participle		filànte	past participle		filàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	fìlo	fìli	fìla	filiàmo	filàte	fìlano
imperfect	filàvo	filàvi	filàva	filavàmo	filavàte	filàvano
past historic	filài	filàsti	filò	filàmmo	filàste	filàrono
future	filerò	filerài	filerà	filerémo	fileréte	filerànno
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	filerèi	filerésti	filerèbbe, filerébbe	filerémmo	fileréste	filerèbbero, filerébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	fìli	fìli	fìli	filiàmo	filiàte	fìlino
imperfect	filàssi	filàssi	filàsse	filàssimo	filàste	filàssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		fìla	fìli	filiàmo	filàte	fìlino
negative imperative		non filàre	non fìli	non filiàmo	non filàte	non fìlino

¹Transitive, also intransitive in some meanings.
²Intransitive in other meanings.

Etymology 2

un filare

From Late Latin fīlāris.

Noun

filare m (plural filari)

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

Etymology 3

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

Adjective

filare (plural filari)

1. (relational) wire

Anagrams

• Falier, ferali, filerà, fraile, refila

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

filare

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