filare

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See also: filaré

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fi‧là‧re

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin fīlāre. Derivable from filo +‎ -are.

Verb

filàre (first-person singular present fìlo, first-person singular past historic filài, past participle filàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in some meanings) avére or (intransitive in other meanings) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to spin (yarn)
  2. (transitive) to draw (wire)
  3. (transitive) to pay out (rope, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to trail (an oar in the water)
  5. (transitive, music) to trickle out, to drip (liquid)
  6. (transitive, music) to prolong, to sustain (a note)
  7. (intransitive) to spin a web or cocoon (of spiders, silkworms, etc.)
  8. (intransitive) to be stringy
  9. (intransitive) to trickle, to drip, to flow out in a thin stream
  10. (intransitive) to race, to speed, to proceed quickly
  11. (intransitive, nautical) to run (at a given speed; of a ship)
  12. (intransitive, colloquial) to scram, to skedaddle, to vamoose
  13. (intransitive, figurative) to unfold, to proceed in an orderly fashion, to go off without a hitch (of a speech, show, etc.)
  14. (intransitive, uncommon) to purr (of a cat)
  15. (intransitive, chiefly Sicilian, southern Italy) to flirt
Conjugation
    Conjugation of filàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive filàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund filàndo
present participle filànte past participle filàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fìlo fìli fìla filiàmo filàte fìlano
imperfect filàvo filàvi filàva filavàmo filavàte filàvano
past historic filài filàsti filò filàmmo filàste filàrono
future filerò filerài filerà filerémo fileréte filerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present filerèi filerésti filerèbbe, filerébbe filerémmo fileréste filerèbbero, filerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present fìli fìli fìli filiàmo filiàte fìlino
imperfect filàssi filàssi filàsse filàssimo filàste filàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
fìla fìli filiàmo filàte fìlino
negative imperative non filàre non fìli non filiàmo non filàte non fìlino

1Transitive, also intransitive in some meanings.
2Intransitive in other meanings.

Etymology 2

un filare

From Late Latin fīlāris.

Noun

filare m (plural filari)

  1. row, line, file, especially of trees or vines

Etymology 3

From filo +‎ -are (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

filare (plural filari)

  1. (relational) wire

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiˈlaɾe/
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: fi‧la‧re

Verb

filare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of filar
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