fileteado

English

noun

Definitions

A type of artistic drawing and lettering, incorporating brightly coloured stylised lines, flowers and climbing plants, particularly associated with the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian fileteado derived from Latin filum (thread, a thread).

Origin

Latin

filum

Gloss

thread, a thread

Concept

Semantic Field

Clothing and grooming

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

`Kanji`

糸

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

filanders English
filar English
filaria English
file English
filoplume English
filare Latin
filicornis Latin
filum Latin
filāre Latin
pro Latin
fil French
fileteado Spanish, Castilian
*gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- Proto-Indo-European
fil Old French
fill Albanian