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foliate

fo·liate

UK/ˈfəʊlieɪt/ US/ˈfoʊliˌeɪt/ uncommon obsolete
adjective (3) verb (5)

adjective

1.

ornamented with foliage or foils

  • “foliate tracery”
  • “a foliated capital”
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2.

(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves

  • “foliate”
  • “tri”
  • “trifoliate”
Similar
3.

(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

Synonyms
Similar

verb

1.

hammer into thin flat foils

  • “foliate metal”
2.

decorate with leaves

3.

coat or back with metal foil

  • “foliate glass”
4.

number the pages of a book or manuscript

Synonyms
5.

grow leaves

  • “the tree foliated in Spring”

Origin

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”)).

Phrases

  • foliate curve

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