Masculine

filete

Meaning

  1. (masculine) fillet, steak
  2. (masculine) thread of a screw
  3. (masculine) fillet (space between two flutings in a shaft)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
fi‧le‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fiˈlete/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from French filet, from Middle French filet, from Old French filet (“strip, thread, ligament or filament”), from fil (with the diminutive suffix -et), from Latin fīlum (“string or thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰis-lom, from the root *gʷʰi-.

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