Philtre

Definition: Philtre

Philtre

Noun

1. A drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.

Date "philtre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Philtre

Synonyms: love-philter (n), love-philtre (n), love-potion (n), philter (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Philtre

Specialty definitions using "philtre": Alectorian Stone. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Philtre" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (philtre).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Love Philtre of Idey Schoenstein (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Philtre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Philtre" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "philtre": love-philtre.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "philtre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pije magjike. (various references)

Arabic		‏شراب المحبة. (various references)

Bulgarian		любовен елексир (love potion, philter). (various references)

Finnish		lemmenjuoma (love potion). (various references)

French		philtre. (various references)

Greek		μαγεία (bewitchment, fascination, magic, mystique, obi, sorcery, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry), φίλτρο (charm love, filter), ερωτικό φίλτρο. (various references)

Hungarian		bájital (philter). (various references)

Italian		filtro (filter, percolator, philter, potion, strainer). (various references)

Pig Latin		iltrephay

Portuguese		filtro amoroso (Phiz). (various references)

Romanian		filtru (filter, percolator, strainer), bãuturã fermecatã (nectar). (various references)

Russian		любовный напиток (philter), приворотное зелье. (various references)

Spanish		poción (drench, philter, potion), filtro (filter, philter, strainer). (various references)

Swedish		kärleksdryck, förhäxa med en kärleksdryck. (various references)

Turkish		aşk iksiri (philter). (various references)

Ukranian		зачаровувати (allure, beguile, bewitch, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, philter, spell), любовний напій (philter). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngải (charm, incantation, philter), bùa mê (philter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	philtron. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "philtre": philtred, philtres. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: philter.
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: hirple, lither, triple.
	-2 letters: ither, liter, lithe, litre, peril, plier, relit, their, thirl, thrip, tiler, tripe.
	-3 letters: elhi, heil, heir, help, herl, hilt, hire, lehr, lept, lier, lipe, lire, lite, pelt, peri, pert, pier, pile, pith, plie, riel, rile, ripe, rite, thir, tier, tile, tire, tirl, trip.
	-4 letters: eth, hep, her, het, hie, hip.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: heliport, philters, philtred, philtres, plighter.
	+2 letters: heliports, philtered, plethoric, plighters, preflight, turophile.
	+3 letters: birthplace, helicopter, heliotrope, heterophil, limitrophe, neutrophil, philtering, pitcherful, preethical, shoplifter, sphalerite, spherulite, splotchier, superlight, telphering, thermopile, turophiles.
	+4 letters: birthplaces, diphtherial, helicopters, heliotropes, heliotropic, heterophile, heteroploid, hyperbolist, lamplighter, lectureship, lithosphere, neutrophils, perithecial, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, platyrrhine, prophetical, pulchritude, shinplaster, shoplifters, sphalerites, spherulites, spherulitic, spirochetal, sprightlier, telegraphic, thermophile, thermopiles, whippletree.
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