Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A leaf of a book or manuscript. · A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book. · A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages. · A sheet of paper folded in half.
To put a serial number on (a folio or page, or on all the folios or pages of a book); to foliate, to page.
From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon. Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.
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- Root classification mention*bʰleh₃-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfolioenm · leaf of a book
- Derivation mentionfoliōla
- Derivation mentionfoliumla · leaf of a plant
- Derivation mention*bʰleh₃-ine-pro · bloom, flower
- Doublet mentionfoilen
- Doublet mentionfoliumen
- Doublet mentionphylloen
- Doublet mentionphyllonen
- Derivation mentionfoglioit · rectangular sheet of paper
- Cognate mentionfoliumla
- Derivation mentionin foglioit
- Derivation mentionin foliōla
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