Masculine

filho

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O filho do bode deve ser sempre uma criança
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The son of the goat must always be a child.

Quem meu filho beija , me beija na minha boca .

Whom my son kisses, he kisses me on my mouth.

Seu filho dá emprego , essa preguiça é a mãe
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do vício .

Your son gives employment, this laziness is the mother of addiction.

Uma mãe
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e um
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filho caminham juntos enquanto o filho carrega uma bandeira .

A mother and child walk together as the child carries a flag.

Um
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pai
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e seu filho estão brincando com alguns Legos no quarto
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da criança
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A father and his son are playing with some Legos in the child's room.

Um
1

pai
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se espalhando , um
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filho colecionador .

A spreading father, a collecting son.

(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)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfi.ʎu/

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Galician

Cognate with Spanish

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.