filum

From Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of file.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪləm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪləm
• Homophone: phylum

filum (plural fila)

1. (anatomy) a filamentous anatomical structure

filum (plural filum-filum)

1. (taxonomy) phylum: A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank

From Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- (“sinew”). Cognate with Lithuanian gysla (“vein; thread; nerve”), Proto-Slavic *žìla (“vein; sinew”), Old Armenian ջիլ (ǰil, “sinew”), Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “bowstring”), Welsh gïau (“sinews”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfiː.lum]

fīlum n (genitive fīlī); second declension

1. thread, string, filament, fiber
2. texture, style, nature
3. wick of a lamp

   Synonym: mergulus

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• fīlō

• “filum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “filum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "filum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• filum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French phylum.

filum n (plural filumuri)

1. (taxonomy) phylum

• filum in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN