filete

Borrowed from French filet (“soft piece of meat”).^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

filete m (plural filetes)

1. (Portugal) fillet (a strip or compact piece of meat or fish)

   Synonym: (Brazil) filé

Borrowed from French filet (“small string”).^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: fi‧le‧te

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

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-.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlete/ [fiˈle.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: fi‧le‧te

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

• “filete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024