noun, masculine/fiˈlete/plural: filetes
fillet, steak; thread of a screw; fillet (space between two flutings in a shaft)
Synonyms: bife, rosca, listel
Borrowed from French filet, from Middle French filet, from Old French filet (“strip, thread, ligament or filament”), from fil (with the diminutive suffix -et), from Latin fīlum (“string or thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰis-lom, from the root *gʷʰi-.