different between filo vs fila

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

fila

1. plural of filum

Anagrams

• -afil, Fail, alif, fail

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin f?la, neuter plural of f?lum.

Noun

fila f (plural files)

1. file
2. row
3. (chess) rank

Related terms

• fil
• desfilar

Esperanto

Etymology

From filo (“son”) + -a (“adjectival marker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fila/

Adjective

fila (accusative singular filan, plural filaj, accusative plural filajn)

1. filial (in the case of the son)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.la/

Verb

fila

1. third-person singular past historic of filer

Anagrams

• alif

Italian

Etymology

Probably from filo, or from Latin fila, plural of filum. Compare French file, Portuguese fila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi.la/

Noun

fila f (plural file)

1. line, rank
2. (masonry) row, course (a row of bricks or blocks)
3. queue (British), line (US)

   Synonym: coda

Related terms

• filo

Noun

fila f

1. plural of filo

Verb

fila

1. third-person singular present indicative of filare
2. second-person singular imperative of filare

Latin

Noun

f?la n

1. nominative plural of f?lum
2. accusative plural of f?lum
3. vocative plural of f?lum

References

• fila in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fila f

1. definite singular of fil

Verb

fila

1. inflection of file:
   1. past tense
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fila (present tense filar/filer, past tense fila/filte, past participle fila/filt, passive infinitive filast, present participle filande, imperative fil)

1. Alternative form of file

Noun

fila

1. definite singular of fil

References

• “fila” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Possibly from Latin fila, from filum. Cf. also French file.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?fi.l?/
• Hyphenation: fi?la

Noun

fila f (plural filas)

1. queue (line of people)
2. queue (waiting list)
3. (computing) queue (FIFO data structure)

Related terms

• fio

Verb

fila

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of filar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of filar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Fülle

Noun

f?la f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional) stuffing

Synonyms

• nadjev

Related terms

• filati

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French file.

Noun

fila f (plural filas)

1. line, row, rank, file
2. queue (British), line (US)

   Synonym: cola

3. (chess) rank

Derived terms

Related terms

• filo, hilo

Swedish

Etymology

fil +? -a

Verb

fila (present filar, preterite filade, supine filat, imperative fila)

1. to file (use a tool)

Conjugation

Related terms

• nedfila