"Fidalgo (Portuguese: [fi\u02C8\u00F0a\u026B\u0263u], Galician: [fi\u02C8\u00F0al\u0263o]), from Galician and Portuguese filho de algo\u2014sometimes translated into English as \"son of somebody\" or \"son of some (important family)\"\u2014is 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."@en .