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, lofi

Catalan

Verb

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin fīlius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfilo]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: fi‧lo

Noun

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

1. son

Hypernyms

• gefilo (“offspring”)

Coordinate terms

• filino (“daughter”)

Derived terms

• duonfilo (“stepson”)
• filiĉo
• vicfilo (“stepson”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: fì‧lo

Etymology 1

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

Noun

filo m (plural fili m or (collectively or in fixed expressions) fila f, diminutive filìno or filétto)

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)

   filo d'acqua

   water trickle

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

Anagrams

• lofi

Italiot Greek

Noun

filo m

1. friend

Latin

Noun

fīlō n

1. dative/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)

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese filho.

Noun

filo (plural filo-filo, female fila)

1. boy
2. son

   filo-di-quim ― whose son

3. child

   filo-grándi ― oldest child

   filo trás di porta ― illegitimate child

Particle

filo-filo

1. diminutive marker

   chuva filo-filo ― a drizzle (literally, “rain children”)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lu/

• Hyphenation: fi‧lo
• Homophone: filho (Madeira)

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/ [ˈfi.lo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: fi‧lo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish filo, inherited from Latin fīlum. Doublet of hilo. Both were inherited, and it is not entirely clear why the two diverged in pronunciation, with filo coming to mean 'edge' and hilo maintaining the Latin sense of 'string, thread'. Perhaps the /f~h/ variation was exploited to create two words with more specialized senses.

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
• al filo de
• arma de dos filos
• contrafilo
• de doble filo
• espada de dos filos
• 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

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

Further reading

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “hilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361
• “filo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tongan

Noun

filo

1. cotton

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فیلو (filo, “line of battle”), from Venetian filo (“line”), from Latin filum.

Noun

filo (definite accusative filoyu, plural filolar)

1. (military, nautical) fleet; squadron, line of battle

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “filo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1593
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 286
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “filo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN