# filé
## English
### Etymology

From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪˈleɪ/, /fiːˈleɪ/
* Homophone: filet

### Noun

filé (uncountable)
* A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.

### Anagrams

* flie, elif, life, lief, Life, Fiel

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɪlɛː]

### Noun

filé n (indeclinable)
* fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

### Further reading

* “filé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “filé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “filé”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## French
### Etymology

From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi.le/

### Participle

filé (feminine filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)
* past participle of filer

### Noun

filé m (plural filés)
* simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
* fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production
    Les filés d’or et d’argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.
* (Louisiana) dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo

#### Related terms

* fil m
* filament m
* filet m
* filement m
* filerie
* fileter (verb)

### Further reading

* “filé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* fiel

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

From French filer (“to get away”).

### Verb

filé
* to get away

### References

* Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French filet, ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filete.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fiˈlɛ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fiˈlɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: fi‧lé

### Noun

filé m (plural filés)
* (Brazil) fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
    Synonym: (Portugal) filete

### References

* ↑ “filé”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “filé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Verb

filé
* first-person singular preterite indicative of filar

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French filet.

### Noun

filé c
* a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | filé | filés |
| singular | definite | filén | filéns |
| plural | indefinite | filéer | filéers |
| plural | definite | filéerna | filéernas |

#### Derived terms

* ansjovisfilé
* fiskfilé (“fish fillet”)
* fläskfilé (“pork tenderloin, pork fillet”)
* gösfilé
* hjortfilé
* kalvfilé
* koljafilé
* kycklingfilé (“chicken fillet”)
* lammfilé
* laxfilé
* makrillfilé (“mackerel fillet”)
* oxfilé (“beef tenderloin, fillet of beef”)
* piggvarsfilé
* rödspättefilé
* sillfilé
* sjötungsfilé
* slätvarsfilé
* spättafilé
* strömmingsfilé
* torskfilé (“cod fillet”)
* ytterfilé

### References

* filé in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* filé in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* filé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)