different between filo vs fils

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

Etymology 1

From French fils (“son”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?s, IPA^(key): /?fi?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Adjective

fils (not comparable)

1. Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.

Usage notes

• Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.

Antonyms

• père

Noun

fils (plural fils)

1. (rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????. Doublet of fool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ls/
• Rhymes: -?ls

Noun

fils (plural fulus)

1. (numismatics) Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.

Anagrams

• silf

Catalan

Noun

fils

1. plural of fil

French

Etymology 1

From Old French fils, fiz, fil, from Latin filius (“son”), from Old Latin f?lios, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *d?eh?(y)- (“to suck”). Cognate to Portuguese filho, Spanish hijo, and Italian figlio, among others.

Final -s regularly became mute before consonants in late Old French but was then still pronounced in pausa. In the 18th century, these pausal forms widely fell out of use; they remained, however, as variants in a small number of words (cf. tous, ours). By the 20th century, the regular pronunciation /fi/ had become archaic or dialectal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fis/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /f?s/
• Rhymes: -is
• (archaic) IPA^(key): /fi/
• Homophones: fisse, fissent, fisses

Noun

fils m (plural fils)

1. son
2. any male descendant
3. any direct descendant, male or female
4. Jr. (postnomial designator indicating a son with the same name as the father)
5. darling, dear (term of affection for a male beloved)

Antonyms

• (son): fille (daughter)
• (son): père (father)
• (Jr.): père (Sr.)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/
• Homophones: fil, file, filent, files, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fils m pl

1. plural of fil

Further reading

• “fils” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

• fis (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French fils, fil, from Latin f?lius.

Noun

fils m (plural fils, feminine fille) (Guernsey)

1. son
2. boy

Synonyms

• (boy): garçaon

Old French

Alternative forms

• fis
• fix
• fiz

Noun

fils m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Swedish

Noun

fils

1. indefinite genitive singular of fil

Anagrams

• lifs

Volapük

Noun

fils

1. nominative plural of fil