follis

English

Etymology

From Latin follis (“a bag”). Doublet of fool.

Noun

follis

1. A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.

Anagrams

• fillos

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Verb

follis

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, o-grade i-stem derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Cognates include Sanskrit बर्हिस् (barhís, “straw, sacrificial straw”), Old English belġ (“bulge, bag, purse”) (English belly) and belġan (“to swell with anger”), Old Prussian balsinis (“cushion”) and Old Irish bolg (“belly; bag; bellows”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfol.lis/, [ˈfɔlːʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfol.lis/, [ˈfɔlːis]

Noun

follis m (genitive follis); third declension

1. bellows
2. purse, sack, money bag
3. (by extension) a small value coin
4. an inflated ball
5. paunch, belly
6. (poetic) puffed cheeks

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	follis	follēs
Genitive	follis	follium
Dative	follī	follibus
Accusative	follem	follēs follīs
Ablative	folle	follibus
Vocative	follis	follēs

Derived terms

• folleātus
• folleō
• follicō

• folliculus
• folligena
• follītim

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: foali
  • Romanian: foale
• Italian: folle
• Old French: fol
  • Middle French: fol
    • French: fol, fou
      • Louisiana Creole: fou
  • Norman: fo m, folle f
  • → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
    • English: fool
    • Geordie English: fuil, feul
    • Scots: fule, fuil
    • → Welsh: ffôl
  • → Old Danish: fol
    • Danish: fjols
  • ⇒ Old French: folie
    • French: folie
    • → Middle English: folye, foly, folie, foli, foolie, fooli, fooly, ffoly, ffolye
      • English: folly
      • Scots: folly
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: folia
      • Galician: folía
      • Portuguese: folia
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: fuelle
• Old Occitan: fol
  • Catalan: foll
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: fol
  • Portuguese: fole
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: follar, fuelle
• Sardinian: fodhe
• Sicilian: foddi
• Venetian: folo, foło, fol
• → Alemannic German: Folle
• → Ancient Greek: φόλλις (phóllis)
  • → Aramaic: פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/)
    • → Arabic: فِلْس (fils)
      • Egyptian Arabic: فلوس (flūs)
      • Gulf Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fils)
      • Hijazi Arabic: فلوس (fulūs, filūs)
      • Maltese: flus
      • Moroccan Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fals)
      • → English: fils, fals
      • → Dutch: floes
      • → French: flouze
      • → Indonesian: fulus
      • → Swahili: fulusi
      • → Swedish: flos
      • → Ottoman Turkish: فلس (fels)
      • → Turkish: fülus
• → English: follis

References

• “follis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “follis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• follis 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)
• follis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “follis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “follis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin