filo
English
Noun
filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)
- Alternative spelling of phyllo
Further reading
filo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi, lofi
Catalan
Verb
filo
- first-person singular present indicative form 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)
- 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)
- thread (for sewing, etc.)
- yarn
- string (cord)
- cable, wire, flex
- blade (of grass, etc.)
- grain (of wood)
- (idiomatic, in the plural) threads, strands
- trickle (of water)
- breath (of air)
- wisp (of smoke)
- edge (of blade)
- ray (of light)
- 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)
- (taxonomy) phylum (a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class)
Verb
filo
- 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
- friend
Latin
Noun
fīlō n
- 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)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.lu/
- Hyphenation: fi‧lo
- Homophone: filho (Madeira)
Noun
filo m (plural filos)
- (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class)
Verb
filo
- first-person singular present indicative of filar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfilo/ [ˈfi.lo]
- Rhymes: -ilo
- Syllabification: fi‧lo
Etymology 1
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)
- edge, cutting edge (of the blade of an instrument)
- edge (sharp terminating border)
- (colloquial, dated, Colombia, El Salvador) hunger
- (Cuba) fold
Derived terms
- afilar
- al filo de
- arma de dos filos
- contrafilo
- de doble filo
- filar
- filoso
Interjection
filo
- (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)
- (biology, taxonomy) phylum
Derived terms
- subfilo
- superfilo
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
filo
- 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), volume 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
- 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)
- (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