Fidalgo (Portuguese: [fiˈðaɫɣu], Galician: [fiˈðalɣo]), from Galician and Portuguese filho de algo—sometimes translated into English as "son of somebody" or "son of some (important family)"—is a traditional title of Portuguese nobility that refers to a member of the titled or untitled nobility. A fidalgo is comparable in some ways to the French gentilhomme (the word also implies nobility by birth or by charge) and to the Italian nobile.