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filho

See also: filhó

Galician edit

Noun edit

filho m (plural filhos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of fillo

References edit

  • “filho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Mirandese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin fīlius.

Noun edit

filho (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)

  1. son

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)

  1. son

Descendants edit

  • Fala: fillu
  • Galician: fillo
  • Portuguese: filho (see there for further descendants)

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)

  2. son (male offspring)
  4. child (offspring of any sex)
  6. (informal) son (term of address for a younger male)
  8. (somewhat poetic) son; child (any descendant)
  10. child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
  12. (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.

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Descendants edit

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