filho

Portuguese

/ˈfi.ʎu/

noun
Definitions
  • son male offspring
  • child offspring of any sex
  • (informal) son term of address for a younger male
  • (somewhat) son; child any descendant
  • child any person or thing heavily influenced by something else
  • (graph theory) child a node, of a tree, that has a parent node

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese fillo (son) inherited from Latin fīlius (son) inherited from Old Latin fīlios (son) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (sucker).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeh₁y-li-os

Gloss

sucker

Concept
Semantic Field

Agriculture and vegetation

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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