filo
Meaning
filar
to cotton on, be onto
Concepts
Synonyms
tener hambre
hilo agudo
slide
to be hungry
lo que tú digas
phylum
da igual
Translations
filo
Schneide
embranchement
fio
fílumFrequency
Hyphenated as
fi‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfilo/
Etymology
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.
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