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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

Alternative forms

• intail (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?te?l/, /?n?te?l/, /?n?te?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

Verb

entail (third-person singular simple present entails, present participle entailing, simple past and past participle entailed)

1. (transitive) To imply or require.

   This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

2. (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
   • 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England

     Allowing them to entail their estates.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Derived terms

• entailment

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.

Noun

entail (plural entails)

1. That which is entailed. Hence:
   1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
   2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
   • 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England

     A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.

2. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Latine, Ta-lien, Talien