See also: filaré

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fiˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fi‧là‧re

Etymology 1 edit

From Late Latin fīlāre, from Latin fīlum (thread). Compare French filer, Portuguese fiar, Spanish hilar.

Verb edit

filàre (first-person singular present fìlo, first-person singular past historic filài, past participle filàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in some meanings) avére or (intransitive in other meanings) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to spin (yarn)
  2. (transitive) to draw (wire)
  3. (transitive) to pay out (rope, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to trail (an oar in the water)
  5. (transitive, music) to trickle out, to drip (liquid)
  6. (transitive, music) to prolong, to sustain (a note)
  7. (intransitive) to spin a web or cocoon (of spiders, silkworms, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
  8. (intransitive) to be stringy [auxiliary avere]
  9. (intransitive) to trickle, to drip, to flow out in a thin stream [auxiliary avere]
  10. (intransitive) to race, to speed, to proceed quickly [auxiliary essere]
  11. (intransitive, nautical) to run (at a given speed; of a ship) [auxiliary essere]
  12. (intransitive, colloquial) to scram, to skedaddle, to vamoose [auxiliary essere]
  13. (intransitive, figurative) to unfold, to proceed in an orderly fashion, to go off without a hitch (of a speech, show, etc.) [auxiliary essere]
  14. (intransitive, uncommon) to purr (of a cat) [auxiliary avere]
  15. (intransitive, chiefly Sicilian, southern Italy) to flirt [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

 
un filare

From Late Latin fīlāris.

Noun edit

filare m (plural filari)

  1. row, line, file, especially of trees or vines

Etymology 3 edit

From filo +‎ -are (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective edit

filare (plural filari)

  1. (relational) wire

Anagrams edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fiˈlaɾe/ [fiˈla.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: fi‧la‧re

Verb edit

filare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of filar