filete

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See also: fileté

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French filet (“soft piece of meat”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

  1. (Portugal) fillet (a strip or compact piece of meat or fish)
    Synonym: (Brazil) filé

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French filet (“small string”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

  1. very thin or narrow string (of light, water, solid material, etc.)
  2. ornamental stripe or ribbon
    Synonyms: debrum, orla
  3. (architecture) listel, fillet: straight and flat frame of a building, often separating the flutings of a shaft
    Synonym: listel
  4. (anatomy) soft branch of a nerve
  5. (botany) the part of the stamen holding the anther

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “filete” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “filete” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French filet, from Middle French filet, from Old French filet (“strip, thread, ligament or filament”), from fil (with the diminutive suffix -et), from Latin fīlum (“string or thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰis-lom, from the root *gʷʰi-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiˈlete/
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: fi‧le‧te

Noun

filete m (plural filetes)

  1. fillet, steak
    Synonym: bife
  2. thread of a screw
    Synonym: rosca
  3. (architecture) fillet (space between two flutings in a shaft)
    Synonym: listel

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