Noun: fils
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like fils
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old French fils, fiz, fil, from Latin filius (“son”). Cognate to Spanish hijo, Portuguese filho, , Italian figlio and Romanian fiu, among others.
2. Final -s regularly became mute before consonants in late Old French but was then still pronounced in pausa. In the 18th century, these pausal forms widely fell out of use; they remained, however, as variants in a small number of words (cf. tous, ours). By the 20th century, the regular pronunciation /fi/ had become archaic or dialectal. See: Latin Nouns '
filius', Spanish Nouns '
hijo', Portuguese Nouns '
filho', Italian Nouns '
figlio', Romanian Nouns '
fiu'.
Verbs referencing "fils"
English Nouns
fils, Italian Nouns
figlio.
Translations