fileira

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

French filebor.

Portuguese fila

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin -āria

Old Galician-Portuguese -eira

Portuguese -eira

Portuguese fileira

From fila + -eira.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈle(j).ɾɐ/ [fiˈle(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɐj.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈlɐj.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈlej.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈlej.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈle.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
• Hyphenation: fi‧lei‧ra

Noun

fileira f (plural fileiras)

1. file, row, line
2. (chess) rank

Further reading

• “fileira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fileira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026