folium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin, a leaf.
Noun[edit]
folium (plural foliums or folia)
- A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate.
- (geometry) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
folium n (genitive foliī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second declension neuter.
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | folium | folia |
| genitive | foliī | foliōrum |
| dative | foliō | foliīs |
| accusative | folium | folia |
| ablative | foliō | foliīs |
| vocative | folium | folia |
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References[edit]
- fŏlĭum in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- “fŏlĭum” on page 678/1 of Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- “folium” on page 719/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- “folium” on page 439/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)
