English
Filegate
From file + -gate.
Formed from file + -gate
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- ‘sinew’
Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom
Latin fīlum ‘thread’
Old French fil ‘thread’
English file
Today it means
name The White House FBI files controversy of the late 1990s.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Filegate