follis

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

follis

1. (numismatics) A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.

• fillos

follis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of follar

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰ-n-is, o-grade i-stem derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”) with an *-n- suffix. 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”).

Or simply from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n-is, ultimately from the same root, i.e. *bʰel- (“to blow”), from which *bʰelǵʰ- appears to be derived.

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

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

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “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