folium
English
Etymology
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “folium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Alternatively from *dʰolyom (*dʰelh₁- (“be green”)), whence Welsh dail and Old Irish duille.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.li.um/, [ˈfɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.li.um/, [ˈfɔːlium]
Noun
folium n (genitive foliī or folī); second declension
Declension
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
Related terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: fuella
- Aromanian: foalji
- Asturian: fueya
- Catalan: full, fulla; → foli
- Dalmatian: fualja
- → English: folio
- Franco-Provençal: fôlye
- Old French: fueille
- → French: folio
- Friulian: fuee
- Galician: folla
- Istro-Romanian: foľe
- Italian: foglia, foglio
- Norman: fielle
- Occitan: fuèlh, fuèlha, huelha
- Piedmontese feuj
- Portuguese: folha, folho; → fólio
- Romanian: foaie; → foliu
- Romansch: fegl, figl, föglia
- Sardinian: fógiu, fògia, folla, foza
- Sicilian: fogghia, fogghiu
- Spanish: hoja; → folio
- Venetian: fogia, foja, fogio, fojo
- Walloon: foye
References
- “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
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