filé
English edit
Etymology edit
From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
filé (uncountable)
- A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
filé n (indeclinable)
- fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
filé (feminine filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)
- past participle of filer
Noun edit
filé m (plural filés)
- simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
- fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production
- Les filés d’or et d’argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.
- Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.
- (Louisiana) dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “filé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Louisiana Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French filer (“to get away”).
Verb edit
filé
- to get away
References edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French filet,[1][2] ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filete.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: fi‧lé
Noun edit
filé m (plural filés)
References edit
- ^ “filé” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “filé” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Verb edit
filé
Swedish edit
Noun edit
filé c
- a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)
Declension edit
| Declension of filé | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | filé | filén | filéer | filéerna |
| Genitive | filés | filéns | filéers | filéernas |
Derived terms edit
- fiskfilé (“fish fillet”)
- fläskfilé (“pork tenderloin, pork fillet”)
- kycklingfilé (“chicken fillet”)
- makrillfilé (“mackerel fillet”)
- oxfilé (“beef tenderloin, fillet of beef”)
- torskfilé (“cod fillet”)