foliate

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or relating to leaves.
2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
3. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
4. Of a plant: having leaves.
5. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
6. Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
7. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

Noun

A logocyclic curve.

Verb

1. (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.
2. (transitive) 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.
3. (transitive) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
5. (intransitive) To split into layers or leaves.
6. (intransitive) Of a plant: to produce leaves.

Opposite of

nonfoliate

Synonyms

foliated

foliaceous

page

paginate

leafy

number

🔢

silver

sprout

broad-leafed

leaflike

metalize

bearing leaves

laminate.

leaf-shaped

exfoliate

phyllophorous

laminate

leafed

leaved

metallize

Translations

frondoso

belaubt

yapraklı

paginer

Blätter getrieben

φυλλοειδής

φυλλωτός

page

feuillu

fronzuto

loof

zich bedekken

paginar

compaginar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfəʊliət/

Etymology

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”)).