folia

folia

1. plural of folium

• Alofi

From Portuguese folha.

folia

1. leaf

folia n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of folium

From the above form, reinterpreted as a feminine singular. See folium.

folia f (genitive foliae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. a leaf
2. a sheet or leaf of paper

First-declension noun.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: foalji
  • Istro-Romanian: foľe
  • Romanian: foaie
• Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: fualja
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: foglia
  • Sicilian: fogghia
• North Italian:
  • Venetan: fogia, foja
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: fuee
    • Romansch: föglia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fôlye
    • Oïl:
      • Norman: fielle
      • Old French: fueille (see there for further descendants)
      • Walloon: foye
    • Oc:
      • Catalan: fulla
      • Occitan: fuèlha, huelha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fuella
  • Asturian: fueya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: folla, folha
    • Galician: folla
    • Portuguese: folha
  • Old Spanish: foja
    • Ladino: oja
    • Spanish: hoja
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fògia, folla, foza

• folia 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)

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folia

1. foil (thin material)

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• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

fol (“foolish”) +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): /fo.ˈli.a/

folia f (plural folias)

1. foolishness, madness
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 132 (facsimile):

     Quen leixar ſ(ant)a m(aria) por outra fara folia.

     He who leaves Holy Mary for another (woman) acts foolishly.

• Galician: folía
• Portuguese: folia

Cognate with Old French folie, Old Galician-Portuguese folia.

folia f (oblique plural folias, nominative singular folia, nominative plural folias)

1. madness

• folga (obsolete)

Borrowed from German Folie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.lja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔlja
• Syllabification: fo‧lia

folia f (diminutive folijka)

1. plastic film, especially the kinds used to make plastic bags and food packaging
2. foil

• → Belarusian: фо́льга (fólʹha)
• → Russian: фольга (folʹga), фо́лья (fólʹja) — 19^th century also
  • → Armenian: ֆոլգա (folga)
  • → Georgian: ფოლგა (polga)
  • ⇒ Livvi: folʼgu
• → Ukrainian: фольга́ (folʹhá), фо́льга (fólʹha)

• folia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• folia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

 

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From Old Galician-Portuguese folia, from fol + -ia.

• Hyphenation: fo‧li‧a

folia f (plural folias)

1. merrymaking
2. merriment
3. (music) folia
4. (dance) an old Portuguese dance

• folião
• foliar

folia

1. inflection of foliar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative