foliate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
biology
botany
geography
geology
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
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”)).
Base: folium
Affixes: -ātus
Inflected forms:
form: more foliate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foliate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: foliates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foliated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to leaves.
pos: adj
gloss: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a plant: having leaves.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
pos: adj
gloss: In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: foliate gold
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: […]
[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; […]
gloss: A logocyclic curve.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to foliate a looking-glass
[T]he production of the Rainbovv is as much to be aſcribed to the reflection of the concave ſurface of the air, as to the refraction of the Globular drops: this vvill be evidently manifeſt by theſe Experiments, if you foliate that part of a Glaſs-ball that is to reflect an Iris, as in the Carteſian Experiment, above mention'd, the reflections vvill be abundantly more ſtrong, and the colours more vivid: […]
gloss: To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.
gloss: To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.
gloss: To split into layers or leaves.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a plant: to produce leaves.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: foil
foliaceous
foliar
folio
folium
Derived words: acutifoliate
adversifoliate
alternifoliate
angustifoliate
bifoliate
cochlearifoliate
decemfoliate
difoliate
foliate curve
foliation
latifoliate
monofoliate
multifoliate
nonfoliate
paucifoliate
plurifoliate
quadrifoliate
quinquefoliate
rotundifoliate
septemfoliate
subfoliate
tetrafoliate
unifoliate
defoliate
refoliate
effoliate
exfoliate
foliated
foliating
foliator
unfoliated
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