Noun: figlio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: fì‧glio
| Singular m | figlio |
| Singular f | figlia |
| Plural m | figli |
Sample Sentences
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È mio figlio. (He is my son.)
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Quanti figli avete? (How many children do you have?)
Nouns inflected like figlio
soccio,
coniglio,
consocio,
ciuvascio,
spilorcio,
giovinaccio,
ragazzuccio,
ragazzaccio,
paraguagio,
gattaccio,
guercio,
negraccio,
figlioccio,
inguscio,
vecchiaccio,
borghesuccio,
lucio,
micio,
sacio,
poveraccio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin fīlius, from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁y-li-os (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Cognate to French fils, Portuguese filho, Galician fillo, Romanian fiu, Spanish hijo, Sicilian figghiu, Corsican figliu, Sardinian fillu, Romansh fegl. See: Latin Nouns '
fīlius', French Nouns '
fils', Portuguese Nouns '
filho', Galician Nouns '
fillo', Romanian Nouns '
fiu', Spanish Nouns '
hijo'.
Verbs referencing "figlio"
French Nouns
fils.
Translations