filete

See also: fileté

Spanish

Etymology

From French filet, from Middle French filet, from Old French filet (“strip, thread, ligament or filament”), from fil (with the diminutive suffix -et), from Latin filum (“string or thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwhis-lom and from the root *gwhi-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fiˈlete/, [fiˈlet̪e]

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

fillet
Synonym: bife
thread of a screw
Synonym: rosca

Derived terms

filetear

Further reading

“filete” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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