Noun: filho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | filho |
| Singular f | filha |
| Plural m | filhos |
| Plural f | filhas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like filho
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
filho', Old Portuguese Nouns '
filho', Latin Nouns '
fīlius', Galician Nouns '
fillo', Spanish Nouns '
hijo'.
Verbs referencing "filho"
French Nouns
fils, Italian Nouns
figlio.
Translations