foliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊliət/
ipa: /-eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliət/
ipa: /-ˌeɪt/
Forms: form: more foliate
form: most foliate
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”)).
Senses: synonyms: foliar
glosses: Of or relating to leaves.
examples: text: In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 106:
synonyms: foliaceous
leaf-shaped
leafy
antonyms: nonfoliate
glosses: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: foliaceous
leaf-shaped
leafy
antonyms: nonfoliate
glosses: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: leafy
leaved
antonyms: nonfoliate
glosses: Of a plant: having leaves.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
synonyms: word: foliated
extra: of a rock: having a structure of thin layers
examples: text: foliate gold
text: But note, that all Solide Bodies are Cleauing, more or leſſe: And that they loue better the Touch of ſomevvhat that is Tangible, than of Aire. For VVater, in ſmall quantity, cleaueth to any Thing that is Solide; […] And therfore Gold Foliate, or any Metall Foliate, cleaueth: […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching Appetite of Vnion in Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 293, page 75:
text: [T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […] as is very evident, not only in the ſvvallowing of golden bullets but in the leſſer and foliate diviſions thereof, paſſing the ſtomack and guts even as it doth the throat, that is vvithout abatement of vveight or conſiſtences; […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Tenents Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, which Examined, Prove either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 3, page 85:
glosses: In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
Derived terms: acutifoliate
adversifoliate
alternifoliate
angustifoliate
bifoliate
cochlearifoliate
decemfoliate
defoliate
difoliate
foliate curve
foliation
latifoliate
monofoliate
multifoliate
nonfoliate
paucifoliate
plurifoliate
quadrifoliate
quinquefoliate
refoliate
rotundifoliate
septemfoliate
subfoliate
tetrafoliate
unifoliate
Related terms: foil
foliaceous
foliar
folio
folium