fillo

See also: fíllò

English

Noun

fillo (countable and uncountable, plural fillos)

1. Alternative spelling of phyllo.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin filius, from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”). Cognate to Spanish hijo, Galician fillo, Italian figlio.

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos)

1. son

Galician

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filho (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”).

Alternative forms

• filho (reintegrationist)
• fiyo (Galician-Asturian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɟo/ [ˈfi.ɟʊ]
• Rhymes: -iɟo
• Hyphenation: fi‧llo

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos)

1. son
2. (in the plural) children (direct descendants by birth)

   Estes son os meus fillos: Ana e Roi. ― These are my children: Ana and Roi.

3. scion (a detached shoot or twig containing buds)

   Synonyms: inzo, xermolo

4. sprout

   Synonym: rebento

Related terms

• afillar
• filha
• filla
• fillar
• fregués

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fillo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “fillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fillo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fillo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

fillo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fillar

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φῠ́λλον (phŭ́llon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil.lo/
• Rhymes: -illo
• Hyphenation: fìl‧lo

Noun

fillo m (plural filli)

1. (botany) phyllon

Further reading

• “fillo”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• folli

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos, feminine filla, feminine plural fillas)

1. alternative spelling of filho

Old Leonese

Noun

fillo m (plural fillos)

1. (Asturias, Galician influence) alternative form of fiyo
   • 1256, "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo XIII" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes:

     Hyo donna Velasquida recunnusco este fecto por uerdat e otórgolo todo e gradesco al conuento e a uos, mio fillo,

     I, Mrs. Velasquita, recognize this fact as true and I grant everything and I thank the convent and you, my son.