filino

Esperanto

Conny & Jenny estas la filinoj de Steffi & Peter.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁ilyós

Proto-Italic *θīlios

Proto-Italic *fīlios

Latin fīliusbor.

Esperanto filo

Proto-Germanic *-inī

Proto-West Germanic *-ini

Old High German -in

Middle High German -in

German -inbor.

Esperanto -ino

Esperanto filino

From filo (“son”) + -ino (“female”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlino/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: fi‧li‧no
• Hyphenation: fil‧i‧no

Noun

filino (accusative singular filinon, plural filinoj, accusative plural filinojn)

1. daughter

   Hypernym: gefilo (“offspring”)

   Coordinate term: filo (“son”)

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Nu, unu tagon oni vokis min por ke mi iru tuj al la malsanulejo, ĉar mia sesjara filino trafiĝis je terura trafik-akcidento.

     Well, one day they called me so that I go immediately to the hospital, because my six-year old daughter got caught in a terrible traffic accident.

Further reading

• “filino”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “filino”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Italian

Verb

filino

1. inflection of filare:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• filoni, infilo, infilò