filiolus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fīlius (“son”) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈli.o.lus/, [fiːˈlʲiɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.o.lus/, [fiˈliːolus]

Noun

fīliolus m (genitive fīliolī); second declension

1. young son

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīliolus	fīliolī
Genitive	fīliolī	fīliolōrum
Dative	fīliolō	fīliolīs
Accusative	fīliolum	fīliolōs
Ablative	fīliolō	fīliolīs
Vocative	fīliole	fīliolī

Related terms

• fīliola
• fīlius

Descendants

• Aromanian: hiljor
• Catalan: fillol
• Corsican: figliolu
• Emilian: fiôl
• French: filleul
• Italian: figliolo
• Norman: filieu

• Ligurian: figeu
• Portuguese: filhó
• Romansch: figliol
• Sicilian: figghiolu
• Spanish: hijuelo
• Venetian: fióło, fiol

References

• “filiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “filiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• filiolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• filiolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.