filo
Meaning
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- (masculine) edge, cutting edge (of the blade of an instrument)
- (masculine) edge (sharp terminating border)
- (Colombia,El-Salvador,colloquial,dated,masculine) hunger
- (Cuba,masculine) fold
Concepts
Synonyms
tener hambre
hilo agudo
slide
to be hungry
lo que tú digas
phylum
da igual
Frequency
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.
New
filar
to cotton on, be onto
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