The story
- French · borrowed fromfilé“threaded”
- English todayfilé
From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.
Words from the same roots
Frenchfilé all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
filé
Today it means: A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking. Full definition →
French filé