Adjective: unfilial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unfilial |
| Superlative | most unfilial |
Sample Sentences
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It is an account of the death of Sancho the Valiant, the unfilial and rebellious son of Alfonso the Learned; […] [1920, Ida Farnell, “Don Juan Manuel”, in Spanish Prose and Poetry, Old and New, page 49:]
Adjectives inflected like unfilial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Germanic *un-
5. Proto-West Germanic *un-
6. Old English un-
7. Middle English un-
8. English un-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
11. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁ilyós
12. Proto-Italic *θīlios
13. Proto-Italic *fīlios
14. Latin fīlius
15. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
16. Proto-Indo-European *-is
17. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
18. Proto-Italic *-ālis
19. Latin -ālis
20. Latin fīliālisder.
21. Middle English filial
22. English filial
23. English unfilial
24. From un- + filial.