filo

See also: Filo, filó, filò, filo-, and -filo

English

Noun

filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

Further reading

• filo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi

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Catalan

Verb

filo

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Esperanto

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin filius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfilo]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: fi‧lo

Noun

filo (accusative singular filon, plural filoj, accusative plural filojn)

1. son
2. (nonstandard) offspring (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Hypernyms

• gefilo (“offspring”)

Coordinate terms

• filino (“daughter”)

Derived terms

• filiĉo
• vicfilo, duonfilo (“stepson”)

 

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lo/

Etymology 1

From Latin fīlum (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

Noun

filo m (plural fili m, alternative plural fila f)

1. thread (for sewing, etc)
2. yarn
3. string (cord)
4. cable, wire, flex
5. blade (of grass, etc)
6. grain (of wood)
7. (idiomatic, in the plural) threads, strands
8. trickle (of water)
9. breath (of air)
10. wisp (of smoke)
11. edge (of blade)
12. ray (of light)
13. glimmer (of hope)

Usage notes

The feminine plural fila is only used in the idiomatic sense threads.

Derived terms

• affilare
• fila
• filo a piombo
• filo di speranza
• filo di voce
• infilare
• per filo e per segno

 

Related terms

• filare

Etymology 2

From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon).

Noun

filo m (plural fili)

1. (taxonomy) phylum (a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class)

Etymology 3

Verb

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filare

Further reading

• filo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• filo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Italiot Greek

Noun

filo m

1. Italiot dialect form of φίλος (fílos)

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) fīlō n

1. dative singular of fīlum
2. ablative singular of fīlum

References

• filo 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)

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Portuguese

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

1. (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class)

Verb

filo

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/ [ˈfi.lo]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish filo, from Latin fīlum. Doublet of hilo. Although both were inherited, it is not fully certain why the two diverged and why filo, preserving the initial -f- from Old Spanish, took on the sense of "edge", while hilo maintained that of "string, thread" (in line with the original Latin meaning).

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

1. edge, cutting edge (of the blade of an instrument)
2. edge (sharp terminating border)
3. (colloquial, dated, Colombia, El Salvador) hunger
4. (Cuba) fold

Derived terms

• afilar
• arma de dos filos
• de doble filo
• filar
• filoso

Interjection

filo

1. (Chile, colloquial) whatever, I don't care

Related terms

• desfilar
• fila
• filamento

• filiera
• hilar
• hilo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “race”).

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

1. (biology, taxonomy) phylum

Derived terms

• subfilo
• superfilo

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001