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filho.

son (male offspring)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfi.ʎu/Brazil/ˈfi.ʎu/Portugal/ˈfij(ʷ)/
  1. son (male offspring)

    masculine
  2. child (offspring of any sex)

    masculine
  3. term of address for a younger male; son

    informal · masculine
  4. son; child (any descendant)

    masculine · poetic
  5. child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)

    masculine
  6. child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filho (“son”), from Latin fīlius (“son”), from Old Latin fīlios (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare Galician fillo, Spanish hijo and Sicilian figghiu.

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