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/, [ˈfiː.lʲi.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li.a/, [ˈfiː.li.a]

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

Noun

fīlia f (genitive fīliae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīlia	fīliae
Genitive	fīliae	fīliārum
Dative	fīliae	fīliīs fīliābus
Accusative	fīliam	fīliās
Ablative	fīliā	fīliīs 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
• Bourguignon: feille
• Catalan: filla
• Corsican: figlia
• Dalmatian: felja
• Extremaduran: ija
• Fala: filla
• Old French: fille, file
  • French: fille
  • Lorrain: feille
  • Norman: fîle
  • Picard: file
• Friulian: fie
• Galician: filla
• Istro-Romanian: fiľa
• Italian: figlia
• Ladino: ija
• Ligurian: figgia
• Megleno-Romanian: il'ă
• Middle French: fille
• Mirandese: filha
• Mozarabic: filya
• Norman: fil'ye, fille
• Occitan: filha
• Old French: fille
• Old Occitan: filha, filla, hilha
• Old Spanish: fija
• Piedmontese: fija
• 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
• filia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• filia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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.