filename

See also: file name

English

Alternative forms

• file name

Etymology

Solidification of file name, compounded from file +‎ name. Related to file system. The preference for the solid form filename over the spaced form file name in opposition to the preference for the spaced form file system over the solid form filesystem is probably influenced by the solidification of other compound nouns ending with name (for instance: place name > place-name > placename).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: fīl′nām, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.əl.neɪm/
• Hyphenation: file‧name

Noun

filename (plural filenames)

1. (computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.

Hypernyms

• name

Hyponyms

• 8.3 filename
• long filename, LFN
• short filename, SFN

Derived terms

• filename extension

Translations

name assigned to a file

• Bulgarian: фа́йлово и́ме n (fájlovo íme)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文件名 (wénjiàn míng)

• Esperanto: dosiernomo
• Finnish: tiedostonimi
• French: nom de fichier m
• German: Dateiname (de) m
• Greek: όνομα αρχείου (el) n (ónoma archeíou)
• Indonesian: nama berkas
• Japanese: ファイル名 (fairu-mei)
• Polish: nazwa pliku f
• Portuguese: nome de arquivo m (Brazil), nome de ficheiro m (Portugal)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} и́мя фа́йла n (ímja fájla)
• Serbo-Croatian: naziv datoteke m
• Spanish: nombre de archivo m
• Swedish: filnamn (sv) n
• Turkish: dosya adı/ismi

See also

• file format

References

• filename on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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