filho
See also: filhó
Galician edit
Noun edit
filho m (plural filhos, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of fillo
References edit
- “filho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Mirandese edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
filho (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin fīlius. Compare Old Spanish fijo and Mozarabic פליו (flyw).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)
- son
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 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.
- Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- fio (eye dialect, Caipira)
- fi (eye dialect)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filho (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare Galician fillo and Spanish hijo.
Pronunciation edit
- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfij/, /ˈfi.jʷ/
- Rhymes: -iʎu
- Homophone: filo (Madeira)
- Hyphenation: fi‧lho
Audio (Portugal) (file)
Noun edit
filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)
- son (male offspring)
- child (offspring of any sex)
- (informal) son (term of address for a younger male)
- (somewhat poetic) son; child (any descendant)
- child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
- (graph theory) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)
Usage notes edit
Usually used in reference to humans, while the offspring of an animal is more often called cria.
Synonyms edit
- (offspring): rebento
- (used to address a younger male): (meu filho), rapaz, jovem
- (descendant): descendente
Derived terms edit
- filhão (augmentative)
- filhinho (diminutive)
- filho da mãe
- filho da puta
- filho de Deus
- filho de santo
- meu filho