filé
See also: file and fíle
English
Etymology
From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪˈleɪ/, /fiːˈleɪ/
- Homophone: filet
Noun
filé (uncountable)
- A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.
Anagrams
- Life, flie, lief, life
Czech
Noun
filé n
- fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
French
Etymology
From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.le/
Participle
filé (feminine filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)
- past participle of filer
Noun
filé m (plural filés)
- simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
- fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production
- Les filés d'or et d'argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.
- Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.
Related terms
- fil m
- filament m
- filet m
- filement m
- filerie
- fileter (verb)
Further reading
- “filé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- fiel
Louisiana Creole French
Etymology
From French filer (“to get away”).
Verb
filé
- to get away
References
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Portuguese
Etymology
From French filet, ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /fiˈlɛ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fiˈlɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛ
Noun
filé m (plural filés)
- (Brazil) fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- Synonym: (Portugal) filete
Spanish
Verb
filé
- first-person singular preterite indicative of filar
Swedish
Noun
filé c
- a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)
Declension
| Declension of filé | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | filé | filén | filéer | filéerna |
| Genitive | filés | filéns | filéers | filéernas |
Derived terms
- fiskfilé (“fish fillet”)
- fläskfilé (“pork tenderloin, pork fillet”)
- kycklingfilé (“chicken fillet”)
- makrillfilé (“mackerel fillet”)
- oxfilé (“beef tenderloin, fillet of beef”)
- torskfilé (“cod fillet”)
References
- filé in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- filé in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- filé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)