Etymograph

English

foliation

Foliation comes from Latin folium ‘leaf’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfolium‘leaf’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentfoliation
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1907same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfolium‘leaf’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentfoliation
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1907same form

Earliest quotation: 1907, Robert William Chambers, New York: “The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ‘blossom, flower’

full, blood, blow, flower, blade, bless, bloom, fool, floral, bleed, flora, blossom, flourish, ferret, florist, fleur, flor, belladonna, 53 more

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom ‘leaf’

folly, trefoil, 15 more

through Latin folium ‘leaf’

foil, folio, folic, exfoliate, 21 more

Today it means

noun The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin folium / foliation

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