filia

See also: -filia

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Latin filia, Italian figlia.

Noun

filia (plural filias)

1. daughter

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Latin

Etymology

From fīlius (“son”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.li.a/

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

Noun

fīlia f (genitive fīliae); first declension

1. daughter
2. (by extension) any female offspring

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fīlia	fīliae
genitive	fīliae	fīliārum
dative	fīliae	fīliīs
accusative	fīliam	fīliās
ablative	fīliā	fīliīs
vocative	fīlia	fīliae

Sometimes: First declension, dative/ablative plural in -ābus.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fīlia	fīliae
genitive	fīliae	fīliārum
dative	fīliae	fīliābus
accusative	fīliam	fīliās
ablative	fīliā	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
• Catalan: filla
• Dalmatian: felja
• French: fille
• Friulian: fie
• Galician: filla
• Istro-Romanian: fiľa
• Italian: figlia
• Ladino: ija
• Norman: fil'ye

• Megleno-Romanian: il'ă
• Occitan: filha
• Portuguese: filha
• Romanian: fie
• Romansch: figlia, feglia
• Sardinian: filla, fiza, fitza
• Sicilian: figghia, fiza
• Spanish: hija
• Venetian: fia
• Walloon: feye

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “filia”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “filia” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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Novial

Noun

filia f (plural filias)

1. daughter

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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. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of filiar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of filiar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of filiar.