fillo

English

Noun

fillo (plural fillos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin filius, from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”). Cognate to Spanish hijo, Galician fillo, Italian figlio.

Noun

fillo m

1. Son.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese fillo (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiʎo̝/

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos)

1. son
2. (in the plural) children (direct descendants by birth)

   Estes son os meus fillos: Ana e Roi. ― These are my children: Ana and Roi.

3. scion (a detached shoot or twig containing buds)

   Synonyms: inzo, xermolo

4. sprout

   Synonym: rebento

Related terms

• afillar
• filla
• fillar

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fillo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φῠ́λλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil.lo/, [ˈfil̺l̺o]
• Hyphenation: fìl‧lo

Noun

fillo m (plural filli)

1. (botany) phyllon

References

• fillo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”). Cognate to Old Spanish fijo, Mozarabic filyo, Old Occitan filh and Old French fil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʎo/

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos, feminine filla, feminine plural fillas)

1. son
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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, fio (eye dialect, Caipira); fi (eye dialect)
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: fidju
  • Indo-Portuguese: filh
  • Kabuverdianu: fidju