foliatus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fo.liˈaː.tus/, [fɔlʲiˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo.liˈa.tus/, [foliˈäːt̪us]

From folium (“leaf”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”).

foliātus (feminine foliāta, neuter foliātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. leaved, leafy, having leaves

First/second-declension adjective.

• foliātilis
• foliātum

• English: foliate

Perfect passive participle of foliō (“to beat into leaf”), used adjectivally.

foliātus (feminine foliāta, neuter foliātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) (pharmacy, of a metal, such as gold) beaten into leaf

   Synonym: foliāticus

   • [1856, Arnold James Cooley, A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades, including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy, 3rd edition (overall work in English), page 534:

     GOLD (Leaf). Syn. Aurum Foliatum, A. in libellis,—Lat. Gold reduced to leaves by hammering it between thin animal membrane. Its preparation constitutes the trade of the goldbeater. These leaves are only 1-282,000th of an inch in thickness. Gilt silver is hammered in the same way, but the leaves are thicker. The latter is called "party gold." Both are used by artists and gilders, and by druggists to gild pills, &c.

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• “foliatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foliatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “foliare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC