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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

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