file
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Searchable Lemmata: fil (AN), file (MdE), filé (AF), filum (L).
Alternate Forms: fiale, fil, fila, file, fill, fille, filys, fyl.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.)
Raw Material;
yarn; thread; (spcf.) a thread used to seal a document. Also with figurative senses. Cf. AF fil de argent; fildor (fil de or).(ante 1100 - post 1400)
4. Sachent touz que nous avons veheu et regardé les lettres du dit monsieur le prince, seellees en fille de soie et en cire blanche.
[AND Foedera (iii 860) post 1255]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.)
Manufacture;
woof, weft or thrum (glossing L licia, cf. licium, 1b).(circa 1300)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1c(n.)
Jewellery;
string (of pearls).(circa 1350)
1. E qui veult savoir combien vaillent perles qui seront enfillez, garde ung filz d’icellez perles ou ij et prise chascune perle par soy, c’est assavoir les rondes a part selonc les pris et poiz dessusdiz
N/A.
[AND PRO (E136/9/21 f.2r)]
Use: Secular Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.)
Other;
other various senses: a line or scar; a file for a document; a stream or water channel.(circa 1175 ?)
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, OF fil; ultimatley from L filum.
OED, 'file, n.2', has: '[Properly two different words, ultimately of identical etymology: (1) a. Fr. fil = Pr. fil, It. filo, Sp. hilo:L. flum thread; (2) a. Fr. file = Pr., and It. fila, Sp. hila:Com. Romanic *fila, fem. sing.; according to some scholars a vbl. n. f. filare, to spin, draw out threads, f. L. flum.]' [OED, 2nd ed. 1989].
WF:
Etym Cog: filum (L).
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