Noun: hilo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: hi‧lo
| Singular m | hilo |
| Plural m | hilos |
Sample Sentences
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Los magos, los acróbatas, los clowns / Mueven los hilos con habilidad [1974, “Instituciones”, in Pequeñas anécdotas sobre las instituciones, performed by Sui Generis:]
Nouns inflected like hilo
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Spanish filo, from Latin fīlum. Doublet of filo. Although both were inherited, it is not fully certain why the two diverged and why filo, preserving the initial -f- from Old Spanish, took on the sense of “edge”, while hilo maintained that of “string, thread” (in line with the original Latin meaning). Cognate with English file. See: Latin Nouns '
fīlum', English Nouns '
file'.
Verbs referencing "hilo"
Galician Nouns
fío.
Translations