filo

filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo

• filo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of filar

From Latin filius.

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

  (file)

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

1. son
2. (nonstandard) offspring (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• gefilo (“offspring”)

• filino (“daughter”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lo/

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

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
8. trickle (of water)
9. breath (of air)
10. wisp (of smoke)
11. edge (of blade)
12. ray (of light)
13. glimmer (of hope)

The feminine plural fila is only used in the idiomatic sense threads.

• filare

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

filo m (plural fili)

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

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filare

• filo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• filo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

filo m

1. Italiot dialect form of φίλος (fílos)

fīlō n

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

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

filo m (plural filos)

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

filo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of filar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/

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).

filo m (plural filos)

1. edge (of the blade of an instrument)
2. edge (sharp terminating border)
3. (colloquial, dated, Colombia, El Salvador) hunger
4. (Cuba) fold

• afilar
• filar
• filoso

filo

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

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

filo m (plural filos)

1. (biology, taxonomy) phylum

• subfilo
• superfilo

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