fils

See also: Fils

English

Etymology

From French fils (“son”).

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

Noun

fils (plural fils)

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

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

fils

  1. plural of fil

French

Etymology 1

From Old French fils, fiz, fil, from Latin filius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(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/
  • audio (un fils)(file)
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /fɪs/
  • 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

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation

Noun

fils m pl

  1. plural of fil

Further reading

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French fils, fil, from Latin fīlius.

Noun

fils m (plural fils, feminine fille)

  1. (Guernsey) son
  2. (Guernsey) boy

Synonyms

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

fils m

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

Swedish

Noun

fils

  1. indefinite genitive singular of fil

Volapük

Noun

fils

  1. nominative plural of fil
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