different between vulpine vs filo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vulp?nus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulp?s, earlier volp?s (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ?????? (al?p?x), Armenian ?????? (a?u?s), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpiš?s (“wildcat”), Sanskrit ????? (lop??a, “jackal, fox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?lpa?n/

Adjective

vulpine (comparative more vulpine, superlative most vulpine)

1. Pertaining to a fox.
2. Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.

Translations

Noun

vulpine (plural vulpines)

1. Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf.
   • 1980, Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf, unnumbered page,

     The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.

2. A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.

See also

• canine
• lupine
• Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae)

Anagrams

• liven up

French

Adjective

vulpine

1. feminine singular of vulpin

Latin

Adjective

vulp?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of vulp?nus

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.