fío

See also: fio and fi'o

Galician

Alternative forms

• fiu

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese fio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīlum. Compare Portuguese fio and Spanish filo, hilo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.o̝/, /ˈfiʊ̯/

Noun

fío m (plural fíos)

1. thread
   • 1405, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega

     vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno

     all of it is written in a paragraph and a hand of paper, and sewn with white linen thread

2. string; filament; wire
3. linen
4. edge (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)

   Synonym: gume

5. top or a sierra

   Synonym: cume

6. ridge board or beam

   Synonyms: crucel, cume, cumio

Derived terms

• fieiro
• fío do lombo (“spine, backbone”)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “fio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fío”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fío”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fío”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Noun

fío m (plural fíos, feminine fía, feminine plural fías)

1. Eye dialect spelling of filho, representing Caipira Portuguese.

   Synonym: fio

Spanish

Verb

fío

1. first-person singular present indicative of fiar