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filo

filo is a Latin form of filum, meaning “thread”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 9.12.2: … nec scriptione magno opere dignam; sed ego hospiti veteri et amico munusculum mittere volui levidense crasso filo, cuius modi ipsius solent esse munera. tu velim animo sapienti fortique sis, ut tua moderatio et gravitas ali …

All forms of filum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.