ff.
English
Etymology
Abbreviation of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin folio (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”).
Phrase
ff.
- and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)
Usage notes
- The abbreviation ff. is used in citation to refer to a section for which no final page number can usefully be given. When used, ff. has no space between it and the preceding number and is followed by a full stop. If there is only a single section following, f. may be used instead.
- More properly, it is still used, as originally, to refer to the next page or pages in a citation. As such, Hornblower 258f. would refer to pages 258–259 whereas 258ff. would refer to an undetermined number of pages following page 258.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
and the following
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Danish
Phrase
- ff. (and the following pages)
German
Etymology
Originally the plural of the abbreviation of New (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin folio (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”). Later also explained as an abbreviation of folgende.
Adjective
ff. (not comparable)
- (of pages) Abbreviation of folgende(n) pl (“following”, “subsequent”)
- akin to the English ff., et seqq.. (The word fortfolgend has been coined as a folk etymological explanation of this abbreviation and is not encountered in other use than this fanciful explanation, which is in fact a backronym.)
- 1926–8, Leumann–Hofmann–Szantyr, Lateinische Grammatik I: Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre (2nd ed., 1977), Formenlehre Nomen II.B, § 273:1.d, page 290:
- Lit. zu den Gentilicia (aus Patronymika): Schulze, EN 385 f. -eius, 432 ff. -eius (bei etrusk. Namenstämmen älter noch -aeus), 457 f. -eius und -uleius; dazu 284 lēguleius sterteius.
- Literature pertaining to nomina gentilicia (from patronyms): Schulze, EN 385 f. -eius, 432 ff. -eius (older still in Etruscan name stems -aeus), 457 f. -eius and -uleius; as in 284 lēguleius sterteius.
- Lit. zu den Gentilicia (aus Patronymika): Schulze, EN 385 f. -eius, 432 ff. -eius (bei etrusk. Namenstämmen älter noch -aeus), 457 f. -eius und -uleius; dazu 284 lēguleius sterteius.
- 1926–8, Leumann–Hofmann–Szantyr, Lateinische Grammatik I: Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre (2nd ed., 1977), Formenlehre Nomen II.B, § 273:1.d, page 290: