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Definitions: Filial |
FilialAdjective1. (genetics) designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation. 2. Relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring; "filial respect". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filial" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Filial \Fil"ial\, adjective. [Latin expression filialis, from filius son, filia daughter; akin to English female, feminine. Compare to Fitz.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: parental (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Posterity | Adjective: filial; diphyletic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Filial |
| English words defined with "filial": filial duty, Filially ♦ lawfully-begotten. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "filial": orphan ♦ Pieta'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "filial": fils, Fitz. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Filial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (branch), Danish (affiliate, affiliation, branch), French (filial), Indonesian (branch), Portuguese (affiliate, affiliation, branch, branch office, daughterly, filiation, subsidiary), Romanian (daughterly, filial), Spanish (affiliate, affiliated company, affiliated society, daughterly, filial, subsidiary), Swedish (branch). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Filial Love (1912) | |
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Confucius | A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But these two powers, political and paternal, are so perfectly distinct and separate; are built upon so different foundations, and given to so different ends, that every subject that is a father, has as much a paternal power over his children, as the prince has over his: and every prince, that has parents, owes them as much filial duty and obedience, as the meanest of his subjects do to their's; and can therefore contain not any part or degree of that kind of dominion, which a prince or magistrate has over his subject. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In nine years, by dint of holy works and gentle manners, Monseigneur Bienvenu had filled the City of D__ with a kind of tender and filial veneration. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid. |
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| "Filial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Filial" is used about 57 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 57 | 44,859 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "filial": filial duty ♦ filial piety. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amor filial | 338 | filial therapy | 6 |
filial relatos | 104 | filial relatos sexo | 6 |
amor filial relatos | 91 | filial gratis sexo | 5 |
filial sexo | 64 | amor filial relato | 4 |
amor filial fotos | 50 | filial relato | 4 |
filial | 46 | filial fotos | 3 |
eroticos filial relatos | 35 | confucianism filial piety | 3 |
amor de filial relatos | 32 | filial law responsibility | 3 |
de filial relatos sexo | 26 | filial play therapy | 3 |
filial piety | 21 | filial fotos sexo | 2 |
consentido filial no relatos | 11 | filial gay relatos | 2 |
de filial relatos | 11 | filial love | 2 |
amor eroticos filial relatos | 10 | amor cuentos de filial | 2 |
de filial fotos sexo | 9 | adultos amor cuentos de filial para | 2 |
amor de eroticos filial relatos | 8 | filial responsibility | 2 |
amor de filial fotos | 6 | filial sex | 2 |
amor filial relatos sexo | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "filial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | birnor, bijëror. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بنوي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сроден (affined, agnate, allied to, associated, cognate, congenial, connected, kin, kindred, parotid, related, relational, sib, sister, sympathetic), синовен, на дъщеря. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 孝顺, 孝 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | synovský. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | foerste generation (filial generation), Fl-generation (filial generation), filialgeneration (filial generation), afkomsgeneration (filial generation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nakomelingengeneratie (filial generation), eerste generatie (filial generation, first generation), de Fl (filial generation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرزندی , شعبه (Arm, Branch, Chapter, Department, Member, Offshoot, Prong, Substation, Wing), درخورفرزند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | F1-polvi (filial generation), F1 (F1, filial generation, inactive state, powered off state), jälkeläispolvi (filial generation), ensimmäinen jälkeläissukupolvi (filial generation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | töchterlich (daughterly), kindlich (babyish, childish, childishly, childlike, kiddy, puerile), kindes-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υιικόσ, αυτόσ που χαρακτηρίζει τον γιό, θυγατρικόσ (daughterly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | של בן, של בת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyermeki (childish, childlike, infantile, puerile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bakti (faith, filial piety, homage, service, staunch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filiale (agency, bank branch, branch, daughterly, subsidiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 孝経 (the Book of Filial Piety), 不孝 (lack of filial piety, undutifulness to one's parents), 孝 (loyalty and filial piety), 孝子 (filial child), 孝心 (filial devotion), 孝女 (filial daughter), 孝弟 (brotherly love, filial piety), 孝子 (filial child), 孝 (filial piety), 孝敬 (filial piety), 至孝 (supreme filial piety), 孝 (filial piety, obedience), 孝行 (filial piety), 孝行 (filial piety), 孝" (filial piety), 孝養 (discharge of filial duties), 親不孝 (lack of filial piety), 親孝行 (filial piety), 孝悌 (brotherly love, filial piety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "う"う (baby chicken, brave, cruise, filial piety, great feudal lords, harbor entrance, higher technical school, incurable disease, mine, minehead, mouth cavity, pickled vegetables, pit, pithead, princes and marquises, senior high school, sexual union, shaft, surge, thefather of the current emperor, valiant, young and inexperienced person), "う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), "うし (calf, company, Confucius, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman), "うてい (affirmation, amount of work, best pupil, brotherly love, campus, distance, emperor, filial piety, flight, high and low, leading disciple, mine-pit bottom, official, official residence, path length, place of ceremony, positive, public place, revision, rise and fall, run, sail, work schedule), "うじょ (deduction, filial daughter, imperial princess, public order, subsidy, subtraction), "うじゅ" (armored cruiser, descending-order, filial piety, obedience, postulate, promotion of social intercourse), ちゅう"う (12-2 a.m., cast steel, daylight, loyalty and filial piety, metal caster, middle watch, restoration, resurgence, revival, the mean), "うよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), おやふ"う (lack of filial piety), "うどう (action, auditorium, behaviour, brass, conduct, ecliptic, filial piety, justice, level, mobilization, public road, the benevolent Imperial rule, the Imperial Way, traditional incense-smelling game, tunnel, you, your beautiful home), "うし" (57th of the sexagenary cycle, accelerated, acceleration, backward, constancy, correspondence, developing, exasperated, exasperation, favorite courtier, filial devotion, innovation, labia, lips, march, meritorious retainer, one's junior, parade, red lips, renewal, renovation, rise, rising, spiritism, spiritualism, steadiness, telecommunications, update), "うきょう (affidavit, Catholicism, communal, community, deposition, healthy economy, prosperous conditions, public, public service, reverberation, society, the Book of Filial Piety, width, width and narrowness, your instructions or suggestions), ふ"う (accident, death, disaster, lack of filial piety, misfortune, rich ore, sorrow, undutifulness to one's parents, unhappiness), し"う (aim, carrying out, directional, draft of a poem, enforcing, execution, intention, liking, making an attempt, one's own thoughts or opinion, OO, personal conduct, preference, supremacy, supreme, supreme filial piety, taste, thought, tooth tartar, waiting upon), おや"う"う (filial piety), "うけい (aperture, background, bore, calibre, ecliptic longitude, filial piety, scene, setting, spectacle, successor, the essential point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | macoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sønnlig, datterlig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilialfay filé (fillet, nettle). (various references) filial (daughterly). (various references) сыновний, филиальный, дочерний (daughter, daughterly). (various references) dečji (baby, children's, infant, infantile, infantine, juvenile). (various references) filial (affiliate, affiliated company, affiliated society, daughterly, subsidiary). (various references) sonlig, dotterlig (daughterly). (various references) ์เกี่ยวกับความสัมพันธ์ของลูกและพ่อแม่, เกี่ยวกับการผสมข้ามสายพันธุ์, เกี่ยวกับลูกชายหรือลูกสาว. (various references) yavru şirket, evlâtla ilgili, evlât (scion). (various references) синівський (childlike), філіальний (affiliated), дочірній (childlike, daughterly). (various references) mabaidd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | filus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | filialis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filial": filially. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "filial": unfilial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "filial": unfilially. (additional references) | |
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"Filial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: felia, Ffilmiau, Fialka, Fidia, figlia, Figlio, filal, filia, Filiae, filials, filiel, filii, filiis, filio, Filion, Filipa, filius, fillal, Fillemal, fillial, Filliou, Fizia, flial, fylgia, Tilhill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "filial" (pronounced fi"lēul) |
| 3 | -ē u l | actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, centennial, cereal, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, custodial, decennial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, intracranial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, memorial, menial, mercurial, microbial, millennial, ministerial, myocardial, nomenclatorial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, raptorial, remedial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: flail, ilial. | |
-2 letters: alif, fail, fall, fila, fill, ilia. | |
-3 letters: ail, all, fil, ill. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, fa, if, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-l" | |
+2 letters: familial, fibrilla, filarial, filially, flailing, unfilial. | |
+3 letters: alfilaria, bifilarly, failingly, fibrillae, fibrillar, finically, infalling. | |
+4 letters: alfilarias, alkalified, alkalifies, bifacially, familiarly, fibrillate, fiducially, filmically, flatlining, florilegia, fluviatile, fritillary, infallible, infallibly, officially, unfilially. | |
+5 letters: alkalifying, backfilling, fallibility, falsifiable, fibrillated, fibrillates, fictionally, financially, fireballing, firewalling, fritillaria, influential, multifamily, nonfamilial, pacifically, qualifiable, qualifiedly, syllabified, syllabifies, trifluralin, unfailingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407578756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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