filaria

See also: filaría

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

19th century, from translingual Filaria (name of type genus), from Latin filum (“thread”).

Noun

filaria (plural filariae or filarias)

1. Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.

Hypernyms

• (Filarioidea): roundworm

Derived terms

Derived terms

• filarial
• filariasis
• filaricide
• macrofilaria
• microfilaria

Translations

worm

• Italian: filaria (it) f

Catalan

Verb

filaria

1. first/third-person singular conditional of filar

Indonesian

Etymology

From English filaria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.laˈri.a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fi‧la‧ri‧a

Noun

filaria

1. filaria (any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis)

Italian

Noun

filaria f (plural filarie)

1. filaria

Derived terms

• filariosi, filariasi

Portuguese

Verb

filaria

1. first/third-person singular conditional of filar

Spanish

Noun

filaria f (plural filarias)

1. filaria

Adjective

filaria f

1. feminine singular of filario

Further reading

• “filaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28