English
filletlike
From fillet + -like.
Formed from fillet + -like
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- ‘sinew’
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Latin fīlum ‘thread’
Old French fil ‘thread’
Old French filet
Middle English filet
English fillet
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a fillet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / filletlike