folium
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.
Noun[edit]
folium (countable and uncountable, 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.
- (uncountable) Synonym of turnsole (“purple dye”)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “folium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”), exact cognate of Ancient Greek φῠ́λλον (phúllon). Alternatively from *dʰolyom (*dʰelh₁- (“be green”)), whence Welsh dail and Middle Irish duille.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.li.um/, [ˈfɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.li.um/, [ˈfɔːlium]
Noun[edit]
folium n (genitive foliī or folī); second declension
- a leaf (including a conifer's needle)
- 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, “chapter 16”, in Naturalis Historia, book 16:
- Ex his pinus atque pinaster folium habent capillamenti modo praetenue longumque et mucrone aculeatum.
- Of these, the pine and wild pine have a leaf [that is] very thin and long, in the manner of hair, and tipped with a sharp point.
- a petal
- (Late Latin) a sheet or leaf of paper
- (figurative) trifle, thing of no consequence
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | folium | folia |
Genitive | foliī folī1 |
foliōrum |
Dative | foliō | foliīs |
Accusative | folium | folia |
Ablative | foliō | foliīs |
Vocative | folium | folia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aragonese: fuella
- Aromanian: foalji
- Asturian: fueya
- Catalan: full, fulla; → foli
- Dalmatian: fualja
- → English: folio, folium (learned)
- Franco-Provençal: foilli
- Old French: fueille (see there for further descendants)
- → French: feuille
- Galician: folla
- Istro-Romanian: foľe
- Italian: foglia, foglio
- Neapolitan: fuoglio
- Norman: fielle
- Northern Italo-Romance:
- Occitan: fuèlh, fuèlha, huelha
- Portuguese: folha, folho; → fólio
- Romanian: foaie; → foliu
- Sardinian: fógiu, fògia, folla, foza
- Sicilian: fogghia, fogghiu
- Spanish: hoja; → folio
- Walloon: foye
References[edit]
- “fŏlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “folium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- folium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fŏlĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 678/1
- “folium” on page 719/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “folium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 439/2
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
folium n (plural foliumuri)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) folium | foliumul | (niște) foliumuri | foliumurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) folium | foliumului | (unor) foliumuri | foliumurilor |
vocative | foliumule | foliumurilor |
References[edit]
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰleh₃-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Geometry
- en:Curves
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰleh₃-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
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- Late Latin
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- ro:Geometry