filo

Meaning

Noun

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

Intj

whatever, I don't care

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of filar

Concepts

edge

phylum

blade

cutting edge

dividing line

sharpness

sharpened

womanizer

knife edge

whatever

cut

division

misstep

mudslide

slide

Hyphenated as

fi‧lo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfilo/

Etymology

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.