foliate.
Of or relating to leaves.
Meaning & usage
Of or relating to leaves.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike. Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
Of a plant: having leaves.
Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
foliate gold
Where this word comes from
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”)).
A logocyclic curve.
Where this word comes from
From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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.
to foliate a looking-glass
To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
To split into layers or leaves.
Of a plant: to produce leaves.
Where this word comes from
From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)
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