filho
التعريفات والمعاني
== Galician ==
=== Noun ===
filho m (plural filhos, reintegrationist norm)
reintegrationist spelling of fillo
=== References ===
“filho”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
== Mirandese ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin fīlius.
=== Noun ===
filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)
son
== Old Galician-Portuguese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
fi' (apocopic form), fillo
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin fīlius. Compare Old Spanish fijo and Mozarabic פליו (flyw).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈfi.ʎo/
=== Noun ===
filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas)
son
Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.
This one is [about] how Holy Mary protected the son of the Jew whose father had laid him in the furnace from being burnt.
==== Descendants ====
Fala: fillu
Galician: fillo
Portuguese: filho (see there for further descendants)
=== Further reading ===
Universo Cantigas - "filho"
== Portuguese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
fi, (slang) fih, (Caipira) fio (pronunciation spelling)
=== Etymology ===
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, Spanish hijo and Sicilian figghiu.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfij(ʷ)/
Rhymes: -iʎu
Hyphenation: fi‧lho
Homophone: (Madeira) filo
=== Noun ===
filho m (plural filhos, feminine filha, feminine plural filhas, diminutive filhinho, augmentative filhão)
son (male offspring)
child (offspring of any sex)
Synonym: rebento
(informal) term of address for a younger male; son
Synonyms: meu filho, jovem, rapaz
(somewhat poetic) son; child (any descendant)
Synonym: descendente
child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
(graph theory) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)
==== Usage notes ====
Usually used in reference to humans, while the offspring of an animal is more often called cria.
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
Guinea-Bissau Creole: fidju
Indo-Portuguese: filh
Kabuverdianu: fidju
=== Further reading ===
“filho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“filho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
“filho”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
“filho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
“filho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026