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fil
English
Etymology
Of North Germanic origin, from Swedish fil. Also related to Finnish viili.
Noun
fil (uncountable)
- A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.
Anagrams
- LIF, lif
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic ????? (f?l).
Noun
fil (definite accusative fili, plural fill?r)
- elephant
- (chess) bishop
Declension
See also
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin f?lum, from Proto-Indo-European *g??iH-(s-)lo-.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?fil/
- Rhymes: -il
Noun
fil m (plural fils)
- thread, wire
- (Internet) discussion thread
- Synonym: tema
Derived terms
- fil d'aram
Related terms
- filar
Further reading
- “fil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “fil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin f?lum.
Noun
fil m
- thread, yarn, string
Related terms
- filur
Danish
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German v?le, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-Germanic *finhl?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]
- Rhymes: -i?l
Noun
fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite file)
- file (tool)
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English file (“an aggregation of data”) (1962).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]
Noun
fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite filer)
- file (computer terminology)
Declension
Etymology 3
See file.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]
Verb
fil
- imperative of file
French
Etymology
From Old French fil, from Latin f?lum, from Proto-Indo-European *g??iH-(s-)lo-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fil/
- Homophones: file, filent, files, fils, Phil, -phile
- Rhymes: -il
Noun
fil m (plural fils)
- yarn, thread, wire
- grain (of wood etc.)
- edge (of blade, razor etc.)
Descendants
- ? English: file (“collection of papers”) (see there for further descendants)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
fil m (invariable)
- Apocopic form of filo
Judeo-Tat
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?l/
Noun
fil
- elephant
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ????? (f?l).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/
Noun
fil m (plural fjiel)
- (archaic) elephant
- Synonym: iljunfant
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
Noun
fil f or m (definite singular fila or filen, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)
- A file.
- A hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
- A section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane.
Derived terms
- tekstfil
References
- “fil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “fil_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “fil_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Swedish, from Old French. In the sense of a "computer file" it is borrowed from English file. Both the English and Swedish origins ultimately derive from Latin filum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)
- (computing) a file
- (driving) a lane
Usage notes
Until 1983, this noun was also considered masculine.
Derived terms
- datafil
- køyrefil
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)
- a file (a hand tool)
Etymology 3
Possibly shortened from Danish pamfilius. However, it might also be a native clipping of pamfil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)
- (card games) knave (esp. of clubs)
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
fil
- imperative of file
References
- “fil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- fli
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin f?lium, accusative singular of f?lius. The nominative form fiz, fils (whence modern French fils), derives from the Latin nominative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?/
Noun
fil m (oblique plural fiz or filz, nominative singular fiz or filz, nominative plural fil)
- son (male child)
Descendants
- Bourguignon: fi
- Walloon: fi
See filz for descendants from the nominative singular inflection.
Etymology 2
From Latin f?lum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fil/
Noun
fil m (oblique plural fis, nominative singular fis, nominative plural fil)
- thread (fine strand of material)
Descendants
- French: fil
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- fail, feil, fel
- fele, file (relative)
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wele (“see!”), the imperative of Proto-Celtic *weleti (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), compare Welsh gweled (“to see”). Semantic development from "see!" to "there is" is parallel to that of French voici, from vois ci (“see here”) and voilà, from vois là (“see there”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?il?/
Verb
·fil
- present progressive conjunct of at·tá
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
fil
- third-person singular present progressive relative of at·tá
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 114b18
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 114b18
Usage notes
In the conjunct form, the logical subject appears in the accusative (or as an infixed object pronoun) in the oldest language. Examples:
- cinin·fil (“although we are not”)
- condib·feil (“so that you pl are”)
- má nudub·feil (“if you pl are”)
- nícon·?il nach rainn (“there is no part”)
- nín·fil (“we are not”)
Related terms
- do·fil
Descendants
- Irish: bhfuil, níl
- Manx: vel, nel
- Scottish Gaelic: bheil, eil
Mutation
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- phil (alternative spelling)
Etymology
Apocopic form of filo or fillo. Perhaps influenced by forms akin to Old Occitan fil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?il]
Noun
fil m (plural filos or fillos)
- Apocopic form of filo, son, child
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v.
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- f?lj
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (fil) (modern Turkish fil), from Arabic ????? (f?l), from Middle Persian pyl (p?l), from Akkadian ???????? (p?ru). Akin to fìldiš.
Pronunciation
- (f?l): IPA(key): /fîl/
- (f?l): IPA(key): /fî?l/
Noun
f?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????) orf?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- (regional) elephant
Declension
Synonyms
- (elephant): sl?n
References
- “fil” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
- Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 283
- “fil”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 668
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German v?le, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-Germanic *finhl?. Cognate with English file and German Feile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/
Noun
fil c
- a file (a tool)
Declension
Related terms
- bågfil
- fila
- filare
- filklove
- filning
- filspån
- järnfil
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French file?”).
Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/
Noun
fil c
- a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
- a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
- file (in computer technology)
Declension
Related terms
- row
- defilera
- lane
- filkörning
- filmarkering
- computer file
- fildelare
- fildelning
- filformat
- filhanterare
- filkatalog
- filnamn
Etymology 3
Related to Icelandic þél (“fermented milk”), from Old Norse þéttr (“dense, tight”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi?l/
Noun
fil c (uncountable)
- any product from a family of various (deliberately) soured milk products
- abbreviation for filmjölk; a particular kind of fil as above
Declension
Related terms
- filbunke
- filmjölk
- filpaket
- gräddfil
- långfil
- lättfil
References
- Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Swedish Academy Dictionary]?[1] (in Swedish), 1937
- fil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- lif
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English field.
Noun
fil
- sportsfield
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (fil), from Arabic ????? (f?l), from Persian ???? (p?l) (and from alternate Ottoman Turkish ???? (pil), directly from Persian ???? (p?l)), from Akkadian ???????? (p?ru), related to Egyptian ?bw (root of English elephant).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fil/
Noun
fil (definite accusative fili, plural filler)
- elephant
- (chess) bishop
Declension
Uzbek
Noun
fil (plural fillar)
- elephant
- (chess) bishop
Declension
Volapük
Noun
fil (nominative plural fils)
- fire
Declension
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi?l/
Noun
fil
- soft mutation of mil
Westrobothnian
Noun
fil
- Snivel.
Related terms
- fiil
Etymology
Compare Icelandic þél (“thickened milk.”) Related to tjett (“dense.”)
Noun
fil
- A kind of fermented and soured milk.
Declension
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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 filius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?filo/
- Hyphenation: fi?lo
- Rhymes: -ilo
- Audio:
Noun
filo (accusative singular filon, plural filoj, accusative plural filojn)
- son
Hypernyms
- gefilo (“offspring”)
Coordinate terms
- filino (“daughter”)
Derived terms
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi.lo/
Etymology 1
From Latin f?lum (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??iH-(s-)lo-.
Noun
filo m (plural fili m, alternative plural fila f)
- 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
Related terms
- filare
Etymology 2
From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek ????? (phûlon).
Noun
filo m (plural fili)
- (taxonomy) phylum (a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class)
Etymology 3
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
Italiot Greek
Noun
filo m
- friend
Latin
Noun
f?l? n
- dative singular of f?lum
- ablative singular of f?lum
References
- filo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Noun
filo m (plural filos)
- (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class)
Verb
filo
- first-person singular (eu) present indicative of filar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?filo/, [?fi.lo]
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish filo, from Latin f?lum. Doublet of hilo. Although both were inherited, it is not fully certain why the two diverged and why filo, preserving the initial -f- from Old Spanish, took on the sense of "edge", while hilo maintained that of "string, thread" (in line with the original Latin meaning).
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
- arma de dos filos
- contrafilo
- de doble filo
- filar
- filoso
Interjection
filo
- (Chile, colloquial) whatever, I don't care
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from New Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek ????? (phûlon, “race”).
Noun
filo m (plural filos)
- (biology, taxonomy) phylum
Derived terms
- subfilo
- superfilo
Further reading
- “filo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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