Word to the Wise: Filial

"Filial" (FIL-ee-ul) - from the Latin for "son" - means pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.

Example (as used by Deborah Solomon in Utopia Parkway): "He would live with his mother for nearly his entire life, bound to her by an inordinate sense of filial piety."

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