filiar
Portuguese, verb/fi.liˈa(ʁ)/
filiar is spelled F-I-L-I-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to adopt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tomar como filho, adotar”.
What does filiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adopt
- 2
to join (a group)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tomar como filho, adotar 2. entrar em um grupo:
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.
Forms of filiar
- filio first-person present singular
- filiei first-person preterite singular
- filiado participle past
- filiares infinitive second-person singular
- filiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- filiardes infinitive plural second-person
- filiarem infinitive plural third-person
- filiando gerund
- filiados masculine participle past
- filiada feminine participle past
- filiadas feminine participle past
- filias indicative present second-person
- filia indicative present singular
- filiamos first-person indicative plural
- filiais indicative plural present
- filiam indicative plural present
- filiava first-person imperfect indicative
- filiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filiar?
- Brazil /fi.liˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fi.liˈa(h)]
- Brazil /fiˈlja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to filiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filiar in Portuguese?
filiar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).