filé

filé (uncountable)

1. A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.

• Life, flie, lief, life

filé n

1. fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).

• IPA^(key): /fi.le/

filé m (feminine singular filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)

1. past participle of filer

filé m (plural filés)

1. simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
2. fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production

   Les filés d'or et d'argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.

   Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.

• fil m
• filament m
• filet m
• filement m
• filerie
• fileter (verb)

• “filé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• fiel

From Middle French filet, ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

filé m (plural filés)

1. fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

filé

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of filar.