folium

English

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

Noun

folium (countable and uncountable, plural foliums or folia)

  1. A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate.
  2. (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.
  3. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

folium n (genitive foliī or folī); second declension

  1. a leaf (including a conifer's needle)
    • 79 AD, 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.
  2. a petal
  3. (Late Latin) a sheet or leaf of paper
  4. (figuratively) trifle, thing of no consequence

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
  • foliātilis
  • foliātūra

Descendants

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin folium.

Noun

folium n (plural foliumuri)

  1. (geometry) folium

Declension
Declension of folium
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
  • folium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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