fils

See also: Fils

English

Etymology 1

From French fils (“son”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fēs, IPA^(key): /ˈfiːs/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -iːs

Adjective

fils (not comparable)

1. Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.

Usage notes

• Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.

Antonyms

• père

Noun

fils (plural fils)

1. (rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.

Etymology 2

From Arabic فلس. Doublet of fool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪls/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪls

Noun

fils (plural fulus)

1. (numismatics) Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.

Anagrams

• silf

Catalan

Noun

fils

1. plural of fil

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French fils, fiz, fil, from Latin filius (“son”). Cognate to Portuguese filho, Spanish hijo, and Italian figlio, among others.

Final -s regularly became mute before consonants in late Old French but was then still pronounced in pausa. In the 18th century, these pausal forms widely fell out of use; they remained, however, as variants in a small number of words (cf. tous, ours). By the 20th century, the regular pronunciation /fi/ had become archaic or dialectal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fis/

• audio (un fils)

  (file)

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /fɪs/
• Rhymes: -is
• (archaic) IPA^(key): /fi/
• Homophones: fisse, fissent, fisses

Noun

fils m (plural fils)

1. son
2. any male descendant
3. any direct descendant, male or female
4. Jr. (postnominal designator indicating a son with the same name as the father)
5. darling, dear (term of affection for a male beloved)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “son”): fille (daughter)
• (antonym(s) of “son”): père (father)
• (antonym(s) of “Jr.”): père (Sr.)

Derived terms

• fils à papa
• Fils de Dieu
• Fils de l’homme
• fils de putain
• fils de pute
• Fils du Ciel
• fils prodigue
• fils unique
• tel père, tel fils

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/
• Homophones: fil, file, filent, files, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fils m pl

1. plural of fil

Further reading

• “fils”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Alternative forms

• fis (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French fils, fil, from Latin fīlius.

Noun

fils m (plural fils, feminine fille) (Guernsey)

1. son
2. boy

Synonyms

• (boy): garçaon

Old French

Alternative forms

• fis
• fix
• fiz

Noun

fils m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Swedish

Noun

fils

1. indefinite genitive singular of fil

Anagrams

• lifs

Volapük

Noun

fils

1. nominative plural of fil