filho

Meaning

  1. (masculine) son (male offspring)
  2. (masculine) child (offspring of any sex)
  3. (informal,masculine) son (term of address for a younger male)
  4. (masculine,poetic) son; child (any descendant)
  5. (masculine) child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
  6. (masculine) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
fi‧lho
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfi.ʎu/
Etymology

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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