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4-letter words (2 found)

FILO,FOIL,

3-letter words (2 found)

FIL,OIL,

2-letter words (6 found)

IF,IO,LI,LO,OF,OI,

You can make 10 words from filo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of filo

filo

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 of filar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin fīlius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfilo/
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Hyphenation: fi‧lo

Noun

filo (accusative singular filon, plural filoj, accusative plural filojn)

  1. son

Hypernyms

  • gefilo (“offspring”)

Coordinate terms

  • filino (“daughter”)

Derived terms

  • duonfilo (“stepson”)
  • filiĉo
  • vicfilo (“stepson”)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Hyphenation: fì‧lo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fīlum.

Alternative forms

  • fil (apocopic)

Noun

filo m (plural fili m or (collectively or in fixed expressions) fila f, diminutive filìno or filétto)

  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

Further reading

  • filo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon).

Noun

filo m (plural fili)

  1. (taxonomy) phylum (a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class)

Further reading

  • filo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

Verb

filo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of filare

References

Anagrams

  • lofi

Italiot Greek

Noun

filo m

  1. friend

Latin

Etymology 1

From fīlum (“thread”, noun) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix). Documented from the fourth century AD.

Verb

fīlō (present infinitive fīlāre, perfect active fīlāvī, supine fīlātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to weave
    Synonym: neō
Conjugation
Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Noun

fīlō n

  1. dative/ablative singular of fīlum

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese filho.

Noun

filo (plural filo-filo, female fila)

  1. boy
  2. son
    filo-di-quim ― whose son
  3. child
    filo-grándi ― oldest child
    filo trás di porta ― illegitimate child

Particle

filo-filo

  1. diminutive marker
    chuva filo-filo ― a drizzle (literally, “rain children”)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: fi‧lo
  • Homophone: filho (Madeira)

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

  1. (taxonomy) phylum (rank below kingdom and above class)

Etymology 2

Verb

filo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfilo/ [ˈfi.lo]
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Syllabification: fi‧lo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish filo, inherited from Latin fīlum. Doublet of hilo. Both were inherited, and it is not entirely clear why the two diverged in pronunciation, with filo coming to mean 'edge' and hilo maintaining the Latin sense of 'string, thread'. Perhaps the /f~h/ variation was exploited to create two words with more specialized senses.

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

Interjection

filo

  1. (Chile, colloquial) whatever, I don't care
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “race”).

Noun

filo m (plural filos)

  1. (biology, taxonomy) phylum
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

filo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

Further reading

  • Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “hilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361
  • “filo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tongan

Noun

filo

  1. cotton

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فیلو (filo, “line of battle”), from Venetan filo (“line”), from Latin filum.

Noun

filo (definite accusative filoyu, plural filolar)

  1. (military, nautical) fleet; squadron, line of battle

References

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “filo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1593
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 286
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “filo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org