fils

See also: Fils

English

Etymology 1

From French fils (“son”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fēs, IPA^(key): /ˈfiːs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -iːs

Adjective

fils (not comparable)

1. Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.

Usage notes

• Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.

Antonyms

• père

Noun

fils (plural fils)

1. (rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.

Etymology 2

From Arabic فلس. Doublet of fool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪls/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪls

Noun

fils (plural fulus)

1. (numismatics) Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.

Anagrams

• silf

Catalan

Noun

fils

1. plural of fil

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French fils, fiz, fil, from Latin filius (“son”). Cognate to Spanish hijo, Portuguese filho, , Italian figlio and Romanian fiu, among others.

Final -s regularly became mute before consonants in late Old French but was then still pronounced in pausa. In the 18th century, these pausal forms widely fell out of use; they remained, however, as variants in a small number of words (cf. tous, ours). By the 20th century, the regular pronunciation /fi/ had become archaic or dialectal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fis/

• Audio; “un fils”:

  (file)

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /fɪs/
• Rhymes: -is
• (archaic) IPA^(key): /fi/
• Homophones: fisse, fissent, fisses

Noun

fils m (plural fils)

1. son
2. any male descendant
3. any direct descendant, male or female
4. Jr. (postnominal designator indicating a son with the same name as the father)
5. darling, dear (term of affection for a male beloved)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “son”): fille (daughter)
• (antonym(s) of “son”): père (father)
• (antonym(s) of “Jr.”): père (Sr.)

Derived terms

• fils à papa
• Fils de Dieu
• Fils de l’homme
• fils de putain
• fils de pute
• Fils du Ciel
• fils prodigue
• fils unique
• tel père, tel fils

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/
• Homophones: fil, file, filent, files, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fils m pl

1. plural of fil

Further reading

• “fils”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Alternative forms

• fis (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French fils, fil, from Latin fīlius.

Noun

fils m (plural fils, feminine fille) (Guernsey)

1. son
2. boy

Synonyms

• (boy): garçaon

Old French

Alternative forms

• fis
• fix
• fiz

Noun

fils m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِلْس (fils).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfils/
• Rhymes: -ils
• Syllabification: fils

Noun

fils m inan

1. (numismatics) fils

Declension

Declension of fils

	singular	plural
nominative	fils	filsy
genitive	filsa	filsów
dative	filsowi	filsom
accusative	fils	filsy
instrumental	filsem	filsami
locative	filsie	filsach
vocative	filsie	filsy

Further reading

• fils in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

fils

1. indefinite genitive singular of fil

Anagrams

• lifs

Volapük

Noun

fils

1. nominative plural of fil