folle

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See also: Folle and follé

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /fɔl/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective[edit]

folle

  1. feminine singular of fou

Descendants[edit]

  • Louisiana Creole: fòl

Noun[edit]

folle f (plural folles)

  1. madwoman
  2. (slang) queen (male homosexual)

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin follem (bellows).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

folle m (plural folli)

  1. (archaic) bellows
    Synonym: mantice

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Latin follem (bellows), through the figurative sense of “airhead”.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

folle (plural folli)

  1. mad; insane
  2. (automotive) idle, neutral (of a gear wheel)

Noun[edit]

folle m or f by sense (plural folli)

  1. madman; madwoman
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Latin follem (money bag).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

folle m (plural folli)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) follis (bronze coin)

Etymology 4[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, (traditional) /ˈfol.le/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔlle, (traditional) -olle
  • Hyphenation: fòl‧le, (traditional) fól‧le

Noun[edit]

folle f pl

  1. plural of folla

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 folle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading[edit]

  • folle1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • folle2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • folle3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

folle

  1. ablative singular of follis

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

folle

  1. Alternative form of fulle

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old French fole, feminine of fol (mad) from Latin follis.

Noun[edit]

folle f (plural folles)

  1. (Jersey) madwoman

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

folle

  1. inflection of follar (to fuck):
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

folle c

  1. (slang) Synonym of folköl (in both the beer and serving of beer sense)

Declension[edit]

Declension of folle 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative folle follen follar follarna
Genitive folles follens follars follarnas

West Frisian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian fule, from Proto-West Germanic *fulu.

Determiner[edit]

folle

  1. many, much

Inflection[edit]

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading[edit]

  • folle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011