filo

Noun

filo (plural filos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

Anagrams

• FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi

Etymology

From Latin filius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lo/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fi‧lo

Noun

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

1. son
2. (nonstandard) offspring

Etymology

From Latin fīlum (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(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

Verb

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filare

Noun

filo m

1. Italiot dialect form of φίλος (fílos)

Noun

fīlō n

1. dative singular of fīlum
2. ablative singular of fīlum

References

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish filo, from Latin fīlum. 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).

Etymology 2

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

Further reading

• “filo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.