folía

See also: folia

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese folia, from Old French folie (“madness, folly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔˈlia̝/

Noun

folía f (plural folías)

1. feast, party, merrymaking

   Synonyms: esmorga, festa, foliada, ruada, troula, xolda

2. (dated) folly
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 112:

     Et mays vos digo, que nõ queria por mjll marcos de ouro que estes mesageyros dos gregos rreçebesem desonrra nẽ mal nẽ dãno, nẽ que se y fezese tal folia; nẽ he rrazõ nẽ dereyto.

     And I tell you more, that I didn't want, not even for a thousand marks of gold, that these messengers of the Greek would had received any dishonour or wrong or injury, nor that there was committed such a folly; because it is not right nor reason

Derived terms

• foliada
• folión

Related terms

• fol

References

• “folia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “folia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “folia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “folía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.