Etymograph

English

foliar

Foliar comes from Latin foliāris.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfoliāris
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1924foliar

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfoliāris
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1924foliar

Earliest quotation: 1924, Julia Moesel Haber, The Anatomy and the Morphology of the Flower of Euphorbia: “Warming (1870) (69) is confident that it is not…”

Equivalent to folium + -ar

Latin folium ‘leaf’

English folium

Every English word from Latin foliāris

Today it means

adj Of, pertaining to, or via the leaves.

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Etymograph / Latin foliāris / foliar

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