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 of filar == Esperanto == === Etymology === From Latin fīlius. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfilo/ Rhymes: -ilo Syllabification: 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 === Inherited from Latin fīlum. ==== Alternative forms ==== fil (apocopic) ==== Noun ==== filo m (plural fili m or (collectively or in fixed expressions) fila f, diminutive filìno or filétto) thread (for sewing, etc.) yarn line string (cord) cable, wire, flex blade (of grass, etc.) grain (of wood) (idiomatic, also 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 ===== ===== Related terms ===== filare ==== Further reading ==== filo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === 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) ==== Further reading ==== filo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== filo first-person singular present indicative of filare === References === === Anagrams === lofi == Italiot Greek == === Noun === filo m friend == Latin == === Etymology === From fīlum (“thread”, noun) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix). Documented from the fourth c. CE. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.ɫoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfiː.lo] === Noun === fīlō dative/ablative singular of fīlum === Verb === fīlō (present infinitive fīlāre, perfect active fīlāvī, supine fīlātum); first conjugation (Late Latin) to weave Synonym: neō ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === == Macanese == === Etymology === From Portuguese filho. === Noun === filo (plural filo-filo, female fila) boy son filo-di-quim ― whose son child filo-grándi ― oldest child filo trás di porta ― illegitimate child === Particle === filo-filo diminutive marker chuva filo-filo ― a drizzle (literally, “rain children”) == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ilu Hyphenation: fi‧lo Homophones: fi-lo, (Madeira) filho === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from New Latin phylum. ==== Noun ==== filo m (plural filos) (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== filo first-person singular present indicative of filar === Further reading === “filo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “filo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == 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. Cognate with English file. ==== 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 ===== ==== Interjection ==== filo (Chile, colloquial) whatever, I don't care ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from New Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “race”). ==== Noun ==== filo m (plural filos) (biology, taxonomy) phylum ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== filo first-person singular present indicative of filar === Further reading === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “hilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361 “filo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Tongan == === Noun === filo cotton == Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish فیلو (filo, “line of battle”), from Venetan filo (“line”), from Latin filum. === Noun === filo (definite accusative filoyu, plural filolar) (military, nautical) fleet; squadron, line of battle ==== Declension ==== === 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 Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN