filã

Forms

filã f (plural fili /file)^[1]

• Plural fili or file.^[2][1]
• Other spellings: FÍLĂ, plural fíle, in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3] FILĂ in Pascu;^[4] fíla (the articled form) in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling.^[5]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Modern Greek φύλλον (fýllon, “leaf”), which Papahagi cites with its plural φύλλα (fýlla).^[3][4] The Romanian word filă (“leaf, page”) is the same loan.^[6]

The Modern Greek word φύλλο (fýllo) means the leaf of a plant, a thin sheet of any material, and a sheet of paper.^[7] Babiniotis traces it to Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”), already in Homer, from a form *bhul-yo-, with the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell”), and compares Latin folium (“leaf”).^[8] Beekes finds the comparison with folium possible but notes that the vowels do not match.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

The oldest record is Mihăileanu's dictionary of 1901, which glosses fíla as a leaf or page, with căte file ai învițată? "how many pages have you learnt?".^[5]

Semantic evolution

Of the Greek senses, Aromanian took only the leaf of paper: the word means a sheet or page of a book,^[10][3][5] while the leaf of a plant has another word, to which Papahagi refers.^[3]

Timeline

• 1901 – fíla “leaf, page” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1925 – Pascu derives it from Greek φύλλον.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A leaf or sheet of a book; a page.^{[10][3][5][1]}

Related words

• Romanian filă

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 452
3. ^ a b c d e Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 549
4. ^ a b c Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 2, 41
5. ^ a b c d e Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 190
6. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
7. ^ Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Ίδρυμα Μανόλη Τριανταφυλλίδη) (1998), Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
8. ^ Babiniotis, Georgios (2010), Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek], Athens: Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας, p. 1626
9. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10, Leiden; Boston: Brill
10. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)