S vs Filial - What's the difference?
s | filial |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(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 , ,
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective filial is
(not comparable) pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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, [...]