Noun: figlia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: fì‧glia
| Singular m | figlio |
| Singular f | figlia |
| Plural f | figlie |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like figlia
figlia,
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fīlia, from fīlius (“child, son”), 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 fille, Portuguese filha, Galician filla, Romanian fie, Spanish hija, Sicilian figghia, Sardinian filla, Romansh feglia. See: Latin Nouns '
fīlia', Latin Nouns '
fīlia', French Nouns '
fille', Portuguese Nouns '
filha', Galician Nouns '
filla', Romanian Nouns '
fie', Spanish Nouns '
hija'.
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