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Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra.

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Where does the name "filtered colimit" come from?

There are a lot of articles which explain what filtered colimits are (e.g. https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/filtered+limit), but I couldn't find why they are named "filtered colimits". It doesn't look li …
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