filar

From Latin filum (“a thread”).

filar (comparative more filar, superlative most filar)

1. Of or relating to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view.

   a filar microscope

   a filar micrometer

• flair, frail

From Late Latin filare.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fiˈla/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fiˈlaɾ/

filar (first-person singular present filo, past participle filat)

1. (transitive) to spin (a thread)
2. (transitive) to suss out

• fil

• “filar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “filar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “filar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “filar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin pilare, from pila (“column”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲi.lar/

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filar m inan

1. pillar

• filar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From earlier filhar (“to seize”), of uncertain origin.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi.ˈla(ʁ)/

filar (first-person singular present indicative filo, past participle filado)

1. (transitive) to grab; to seize; to catch; to take hold of

   Synonym: agarrar

2. (Brazil, informal) to get for free

From filo.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlaɾ/

filar (first-person singular present filo, first-person singular preterite filé, past participle filado)

1. (colloquial) to cotton on, be onto

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

filar

1. indefinite plural of fil

filar

1. present tense of fila.