filé

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See also: file and fíle

English

Etymology

From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.

Pronunciation

Noun

filé (uncountable)

  1. A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

filé n (indeclinable)

  1. fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

Further reading

  • “filé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “filé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “filé”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Etymology

From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).

Pronunciation

Participle

filé (feminine filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)

  1. past participle of filer

Noun

filé m (plural filés)

  1. simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
  2. fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production
    Les filés d’or et d’argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.
    Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.
  3. (Louisiana) dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo

Further reading

Anagrams

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French filer (“to get away”).

Verb

filé

  1. to get away

References

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French filet,[1][2] ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filete.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: fi‧lé

Noun

filé m (plural filés)

  1. (Brazil) fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
    Synonym: (Portugal) filete

References

  1. ^ “filé”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “filé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Verb

filé

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of filar

Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French filet.

Noun

filé c

  1. a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)

Declension

Declension of filé
nominative genitive
singular indefinite filé filés
definite filén filéns
plural indefinite filéer filéers
definite filéerna filéernas

Derived terms

References

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