filiola

Latin

Etymology

From fīlia (“daughter”) +‎ -ola (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiːˈli.o.la/, [fiːˈlʲiɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.o.la/, [fiˈliːolä]

Noun

fīliola f (genitive fīliolae, masculine fīliolus); first declension (diminutive of fīlia)

1. young daughter

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fīliola	fīliolae
genitive	fīliolae	fīliolārum
dative	fīliolae	fīliolīs
accusative	fīliolam	fīliolās
ablative	fīliolā	fīliolīs
vocative	fīliola	fīliolae

Related terms

• fīlia
• fīliolus

Descendants

• Catalan: fillola
• French: filleule
• Italian: figliola
• Spanish: hijuela
• Venetan: fioła

References

• “filiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “filiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• filiola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• filiola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.