The story
- Latin · derived fromfilum“a thread”
- English todayfilose
From Latin filum (“a thread”).
Words from the same roots
Latinfilum all →
filefilamentfilletfiligreedefilefiliformfierasferfilaceousfilacerfilandersfilarfilariafileteadofiliferousfiloplumefilum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.