filo

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filar

to cotton on, be onto

Ler máis

Frecuencia

Con guión como

fi‧lo

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈfilo/

Herdado de Old Spanish

Herdado de latín

In summary

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.