fiel

From Old French fiel, fel, according to the TLFi, a borrowing from Latin fel, itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green”).

• IPA^(key): /fjɛl/

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fiel m (plural fiels)

1. bile

   Synonym: bile

• “fiel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• file, filé

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fiel, from Latin fidēlis.

• IPA^(key): [fiˈɛl], [ˈfjɛl]

fiel m or f (plural fiels)

1. faithful, loyal
2. true, trustworthy, accurate

• fielmente

• fidelidade
• infiel

fiel m or f (plural fieis)

1. (historical) witness
2. believer

• “fiel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fiel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fiel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fiel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

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• Homophone: viel

fiel

1. first/third-person singular preterite of fallen

fiel (plural fiels)

1. Alternative form of fiele

From Old Portuguese fiel, from Latin fidēlis.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: fi‧el

fiel m or f (plural fiéis)

1. faithful, loyal

   Irene é fiel ao seu marido.

   Irene is faithful to her husband.

   Os cachorros são fiéis.

   Dogs are loyal.

2. true, trustworthy, accurate

• fielmente

• fidelidade
• infiel

• “fiel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Old Spanish fiel, from Latin fidēlis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjel/ [ˈfjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: fiel

fiel (plural fieles, superlative fidelísimo)

1. faithful, true

   Irene siempre ha sido fiel a su marido.

   Irene has always been faithful to her husband.

   Sé fiel a quien eres.

   Be true to who you are.

2. loyal

   Los perros son fieles.

   Dogs are loyal.

• fe
• fiar

• “fiel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014