-filia
Portuguese, suffix
-filia is spelled F-I-L-I-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -filia is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-philia (forming words meaning liking or loving for something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, filia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “exprime a noção de desejo, atração, afeição, simpatia,amigo”.
What does -filia mean in English?
suffix
- 1
feminine-philia (forming words meaning liking or loving for something)
- 2
feminine-philia (forming words denoting abnormal linking towards a given thing)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. exprime a noção de desejo, atração, afeição, simpatia,amigo 2. exprime a noção de folha
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to -filia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -filia in Portuguese?
-filia appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).