Masculine
filho
Sentences
Meaning
- (masculine) son (male offspring)
- (masculine) child (offspring of any sex)
- (informal, masculine) son (term of address for a younger male)
- (masculine, poetic) son; child (any descendant)
- (masculine) child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
- (masculine) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfi.ʎu/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filho (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare Galician fillo and Spanish hijo.
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