filho

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See also: filhó

Galician[edit]

Noun[edit]

filho m (plural filhos)

  1. Alternative form of fillo

References[edit]

https://estraviz.org/filho

Mirandese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin fīlius.

Noun[edit]

filho (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)

  1. son

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • fío (eye dialect, Caipira)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese fillo (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ʎu/, [ˈfi.ʎu]

  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ʎo/
  • (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfij/, /ˈfi.jʷ/
  • Audio (Portugal)(file)
  • Hyphenation: fi‧lho
  • Homophone: filo (Madeira)
  • Rhymes: -iʎu

Noun[edit]

filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)

  2. son (male offspring)
  4. child (offspring of any sex)
  6. (informal) son (term of address for a younger male)
  8. (somewhat poetic) son; child (any descendant)
  10. child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
  12. (graph theory) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)

Usage notes[edit]

Usually used in reference to humans, while the offspring of an animal is more often called filhote.

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Descendants[edit]

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: fidju
  • Indo-Portuguese: filh
  • Kabuverdianu: fidju
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