filho

See also: filhó

Galician

Noun

filho m (plural filhos)

1. reintegrationist spelling of fillo

References

• “filho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin fīlius.

Noun

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

1. son

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fillo

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fīlium (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”). Cognate with Old Spanish fijo, Mozarabic פליו‎ (flyw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʎo/

Noun

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

1. son
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.

     This one is [about] how Holy Mary protected the son of the Jew whose father had laid him in the furnace from being burnt.

Descendants

• Fala: fillu
• Galician: fillo
• Portuguese: filho (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "filho"

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fío (eye dialect, Caipira)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filho (“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”). Compare Galician fillo and Spanish hijo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʎu/

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

• Audio (Portugal)

  (file)

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• (offspring): rebento
• (used to address a younger male): (meu filho), rapaz, jovem
• (descendant): descendente

Derived terms

• filhão (augmentative)
• filhinho (diminutive)
• filho da mãe
• filho da puta
• filho de Deus
• filho de santo
• meu filho

Related terms

• afilhação
• afilhado
• afilhar
• filhar
• filhote
• filiação
• filial
• filiar

Descendants

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