fils
French
/fɪs/
noun
Definitions
- son
- any male descendant
- any direct descendant, male or female
- Jr. postnomial designator indicating a son with the same name as the father
- darling, dear term of affection for a male beloved
Etymology
Inherited from Old French fils inherited from Latin filius (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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Fibonacci English
- fils English
- *fili eclesiae Latin
- filiaster Latin
- filius Latin
- fīlia Latin
- fīlios Latin
- fīlius Latin
- figlio Italian
- figlioccio Italian
- figlioletto Italian
- figliolo Italian
- beau-fils French
- fiston French
- hijito Spanish, Castilian
- hijo Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁y-li-os Proto-Indo-European
- filho Portuguese
- filhote Portuguese
- fil Old French
- fils Old French
- fill Catalan, Valencian
- fils Norman
- iho Tagalog
- Fils Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- fillo Old Portuguese
- *feiljos, *feilios, *fīlios Proto-Italic
- filh Old Occitan
- fijo Old Spanish
- yiu Papiamentu
- yu Papiamentu
- bofis Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fidju Kabuverdianu
- bofis Mauritian Creole
- fi Bourguignon
- figliu Corsican
- fīlios Old Latin
- fillo Aragonese
- ixo Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- bofis Seychellois Creole
- fidju Guinea-Bissau Creole
- fieux Picard
- 𐌚𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏 Faliscan
- filh Indo-Portuguese