different between filo vs bilo

English

Noun

filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

Further reading

• filo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi, lofi

Catalan

Verb

filo

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. thread (for sewing, etc)
2. yarn
3. string (cord)
4. cable, wire, flex
5. blade (of grass, etc)
6. grain (of wood)
7. (idiomatic, in the plural) threads, strands
8. trickle (of water)
9. breath (of air)
10. wisp (of smoke)
11. edge (of blade)
12. ray (of light)
13. 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)

1. (taxonomy) phylum (a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class)

Etymology 3

Verb

filo

1. 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

1. friend

Latin

Noun

f?l? n

1. dative singular of f?lum
2. 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)

1. (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class)

Verb

filo

1. 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)

1. edge, cutting edge (of the blade of an instrument)
2. edge (sharp terminating border)
3. (colloquial, dated, Colombia, El Salvador) hunger
4. (Cuba) fold

Derived terms

• afilar
• arma de dos filos
• contrafilo
• de doble filo
• filar
• filoso

Interjection

filo

1. (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)

1. (biology, taxonomy) phylum

Derived terms

• subfilo
• superfilo

Further reading

• “filo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

bilo (plural bilos)

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

Anagrams

• biol, biol., boil, boli, lobi

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lo/
• Rhymes: -?lo
• Homophone: bylo

Verb

bilo

1. neuter singular past participle of bít

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bilo/
• Hyphenation: bi?lo
• Rhymes: -ilo

Noun

bilo (accusative singular bilon, plural biloj, accusative plural bilojn)

1. a bill of exchange by which the named person must pay a fixed amount to the person named
2. a proposed law, bill

Synonyms

• ?eko
• kambio

References

ReVo:bil

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bilo]

Noun

bilo f

1. vocative singular of bil?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bidlo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bîlo/
• Hyphenation: bi?lo

Noun

b?lo n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pulse, heartbeat
2. a shallow-sloped crest (of a mountain)

Declension

References

• ?olovi?, Gvozden R. (1969) Vojna topografija, Beograd: Vojnogeografski institut

Etymology 2

From biti (literally “to be”).

Participle

bilo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. neuter singular active past participle of biti

Particle

bilo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. generalization particle used before another word to express indifference in regard to choice or to form a disjunctive adverbial; ever, any, whether, no matter (lit. be it this or that)