filé
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English
Etymology
From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.
Pronunciation
Noun
filé (uncountable)
- 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)
- fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Further reading
- filé in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
- filé in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- filé in Internetová jazyková příručka
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)
- past participle of filer
Noun
filé m (plural filés)
- simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
- 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.
- (Louisiana) dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo
Related terms
Further reading
- “filé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
From French filer (“to get away”).
Verb
filé
- 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)
References
- ^ “filé” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “filé” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Verb
filé
Swedish
Noun
filé c
- a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)
Declension
Declension of filé | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | filé | filén | filéer | filéerna |
Genitive | filés | filéns | filéers | filéernas |
Derived terms
- fiskfilé (“fish fillet”)
- fläskfilé (“pork tenderloin, pork fillet”)
- kycklingfilé (“chicken fillet”)
- makrillfilé (“mackerel fillet”)
- oxfilé (“beef tenderloin, fillet of beef”)
- torskfilé (“cod fillet”)
References
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