foliate

== English == === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin foliātus (“having leaves, leafy, leaved”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), a participial adjective derived from folium (“leaf; (Late Latin) leaf or sheet of paper”) +‎ -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”) or *dʰelh₁- (“to be green”)). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊliət/, /-eɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊliət/, /-ˌeɪt/ Hyphenation: fol‧i‧ate ==== Adjective ==== foliate (comparative more foliate, superlative most foliate) Of or relating to leaves. Synonym: foliar Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike. Synonyms: foliaceous, leaf-shaped, leafy Antonym: nonfoliate (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop. (botany) Of a plant: having leaves. Synonyms: leafy, leaved Antonym: nonfoliate Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”). (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet. foliate gold ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== foil foliaceous foliar folio folium ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia +‎ -ate (noun-forming suffix). ==== Noun ==== foliate (plural foliates) (geometry) A logocyclic curve. === Etymology 3 === From Latin folium (“leaf”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊlieɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊliˌeɪt/ Hyphenation: fol‧i‧ate ==== Verb ==== foliate (third-person singular simple present foliates, present participle foliating, simple past and past participle foliated) (transitive) To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate. To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver. (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”). (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet. (intransitive) To split into layers or leaves. (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === foliation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === floatie == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔ.liˈaː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fo.liˈaː.te] === Adjective === foliāte vocative masculine singular of foliātus == Spanish == === Verb === foliate second-person singular voseo imperative of foliar combined with te