Finial vs Filial - What's the difference?
finial | filial |
The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture.
Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post.
(not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
* 1794 , ,
(comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
* 1885 , , "The actions and Attitude of Filiality", translated by James Legge,Cited in Robert E. Van Voorst (ed.) (2005), Anthology of world scriptures , ISBN 0-534-52099-5
(genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
* 1916 , ,
English collateral adjectives
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As a noun finial
is the knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture.As an adjective filial is
pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.finial
English
(wikipedia finial)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1988' : It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron '''finials and terracotta quatrefoils. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 142)filial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The filial duty Ellesmere had paid to a father, who had no other claim to it than that he was'' his father, was now consoling to ''him [D'Alonville]; [...]
- If the admonition [to the parent] does not take effect, the son will be more reverential and more filial ; [...]
Genetics & Eugenics, p. 101.
- This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]