filum

See also: fílum

English

Etymology

From Latin fīlum (“thread”).

Noun

filum (plural fila)

  1. (anatomy) a filamentous anatomical structure

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-. Cognate with Lithuanian gysla.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.lum/, [ˈfiː.ɫũ]

Noun

fīlum n (genitive fīlī); second declension

  1. thread, string, filament, fiber
  2. texture, style, nature
  3. wick of a lamp
  4. accusative singular of fīlum
  5. vocative singular of fīlum

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fīlum fīla
Genitive fīlī fīlōrum
Dative fīlō fīlīs
Accusative fīlum fīla
Ablative fīlō fīlīs
Vocative fīlum fīla

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Corsican: filu
  • Dalmatian: fil
  • Eastern Romance:
  • Italian: filo, fila
  • Old French: fil
    • French: fil
      • → English: file (“collection of papers”) (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ French: file
        • → English: file (“column of people”)
        • → Spanish: fila
  • Old Leonese:
  • Old Occitan:
  • Old Portuguese: fio
  • Old Spanish: filo
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Sardinian: filu, fiu
  • Sicilian: filu
  • Venetian: fiło, fil
  • → Albanian: fill
  • → English: filum

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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