filo

filo (countable and uncountable, plural filos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo.

• filo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• FOIL, LIFO, foil, lo-fi, lofi

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

From Latin fīlius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

  (file)

• Audio 3:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: fi‧lo

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

1. son
   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:

     Polemarĥo, la filo de Kefalo, vidis nin de malproksime dum ni iradis hejmen kaj li ordonis al sia sklavo kuri al ni kaj ordoni ke ni atendu.

     Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we were going home and he ordered his slave to run to us and order us to wait.

     (literally, “Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, saw us from afar while we went home and he ordered to his slave to run to us and order that we wait.”)

• gefilo (“offspring”)

• filino (“daughter”)

• duonfilo (“stepson”)
• filiĉo
• vicfilo (“stepson”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: fì‧lo

Inherited from Latin fīlum.

• fil (apocopic)

filo m (plural fili m or (collectively or in fixed expressions) fila f, diminutive filìno or filétto)

1. thread (for sewing, etc.)
2. yarn
3. line
4. string (cord)
5. cable, wire, flex
6. blade (of grass, etc.)
7. grain (of wood)
8. (idiomatic, also in the plural) threads, strands
9. trickle (of water)

   filo d'acqua

   water trickle

10. breath (of air)
11. wisp (of smoke)
12. edge (of blade)
13. ray (of light)
14. glimmer (of hope)

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

• filare

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

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)

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

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filare

• lofi

filo m

1. friend

From fīlum (“thread”, noun) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix). Documented from the fourth c. CE.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.lo]

fīlō

1. dative/ablative singular of fīlum

fīlō (present infinitive fīlāre, perfect active fīlāvī, supine fīlātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. to weave

   Synonym: neō

From Portuguese filho.

filo (plural filo-filo, female fila)

1. boy
2. son

   filo-di-quim ― whose son

3. child

   filo-grándi ― oldest child

   filo trás di porta ― illegitimate child

filo-filo

1. diminutive marker

   chuva filo-filo ― a drizzle (literally, “rain children”)

• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation: fi‧lo
• Homophones: fi-lo, (Madeira) filho

Learned borrowing from New Latin phylum.

filo m (plural filos)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

• “filo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “filo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilo/ [ˈfi.lo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: fi‧lo

Inherited from Old Spanish filo, inherited from Latin fīlum. Doublet of hilo. Both were inherited, and it is not entirely clear why the two diverged in pronunciation, with filo coming to mean 'edge' and hilo maintaining the Latin sense of 'string, thread'. Perhaps the /f~h/ variation was exploited to create two words with more specialized senses. Cognate with English file.

filo m (plural filos)

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

filo

1. first-person singular present indicative of filar

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “hilo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361
• “filo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

filo

1. cotton

From Ottoman Turkish فیلو (filo, “line of battle”), from Venetan filo (“line”), from Latin filum.

filo (definite accusative filoyu, plural filolar)

1. (military, nautical) fleet; squadron, line of battle

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “filo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1593
• Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958), The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 286
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “filo”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN