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Definition: Folio |
FolioNoun1. The system of numbering pages. 2. A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book). 3. A book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "folio" was first used: 1447. (references) |
Etymology: Folio \Fol"io\, noun; plural Folios. [Ablative of Latin folium leaf. See 4th Foil.]. (references) |
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Literature | Folio A book of the largest size, formed by folding the paper only once, so that each sheet makes two leaves. It is from the Italian, un libro in foglio, through the French, in-folio. Fol. is the contraction for folio. Folio (so-and-so), in mercantile books, means page so-and-so, and sometimes the two pages which lie exposed at the same time, one containing the credit and the other the debit of one and the same account. So called because ledgers, etc., are made in folio. The paging is called the folio also. Printers call a page of MS. or printed matter a folio regardless of size. Folio. In conveyances seventy-two words, and in Parliamentary proceedings ninety words, make a folio. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: FolioSynonyms: leaf (n), page number (n), pagination (n), paging (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo. |
Printing | Folio; (book); copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Folio |
| English words defined with "folio": Blanket sheet ♦ Domesday Book ♦ Fol'io, Folios, Foliosity ♦ Heming, Hemminge ♦ John Heming, John Hemminge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "folio": bindery operator, BINDERY WORKER, Blue Books ♦ Feather in Your Cap ♦ LINE-UP EXAMINER ♦ Quarter Waggoner ♦ Symbols of Saints ♦ table worker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "folio": Portfolio. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Folio" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (folio), Esperanto (leaf, sheet), Finnish (foil), French (folio), German (page), Indonesian (folio, foolscape size paper), Manx (folio), Romanian (folio), Spanish (folio), Swedish (folio). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Folio (1954) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stipple engraving by Edwin, after the painting by Gilbert Stuart, published in the "Port Folio" magazine, 1813. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Folio" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.33% of the time. "Folio" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.33% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 120 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "folio" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Folio | Last name | 130 | 57,262 |
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Expressions using "folio": atlas folio ♦ even folio ♦ Folio post ♦ folio size ♦ folio volume ♦ in folio. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "folio": folio-sired, folio-sized. | |
Ending with "folio": asplenii-folio, port-folio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "folio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | format libri të madh, fletë dyshe, faqe dorëshkrimi, numër faqeje, libër me format të madh. (various references) | |
Arabic | فوليو ورق من قطع معينة, ورقة مطوية, صفحة من سجل, رقم الورقة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фолио (foil), номерирам страниците, номерирам листата, номер на страница, номер на лист, прегънат на две лист. (various references) | |
Chinese | 对开纸 (Folios). (various references) | |
Czech | folio, list (blade, hand, journal, leaf, sheet). (various references) | |
Danish | folio, blad (leaf, sheet). (various references) | |
Dutch | pagineren (number the folios, paginate, paging), bladzijden nummeren (number the folios, paginate), blad (gazette, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical, plateau, sheet, tray). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوشه یاکارتن کاغذ, کتاب ورق بزرگ , صفحه (Brede, Leaf, Page, Sheet, Tablet), دفتریادداشت (Notebook), برگ (Card, Leaf, Page, Tab). (various references) | |
Finnish | foliokoko. (various references) | |
French | folio (folio number). (various references) | |
German | Seitenzahl (number, number of pages, number of the page, page number), blatt (blade, card, hand, instep, leaf, page, paper, sheet, vane). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάστιχου (number the folios), σελίδα (page), φύλλο βιβλίο, φύλλο χαρτιού διπλωμένο μιά φορά, αριθμώ τα φύλλα βιβλίου (number the folios), αριθμός σελίδας (folio number). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'ליון "פוס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fólió alakú vastag könyv, ívlap. (various references) | |
Indonesian | folio (foolscape size paper). (various references) | |
Italian | folio, foglio (foil, leaf, piece, sheet, sheet of paper), numerazione (notation, numbering, numeration), numerare (enumerate, list, number, numerate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 二枚折り . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にまいおり. (various references) | |
Manx | folio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oliofay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | folha de papel (paper), folha (gazette, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical, sheet, sheet metal, tin), fólio (folio number), paginar (make up, page), livro de tamanho fólio. (various references) | |
Romanian | format în-folio, folio, foaie de hârtie, numerotare a unui registru de conturi, in-folio, coloncifru. (various references) | |
Russian | фолиант. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | presavijen list, knjiga velikog formata, jedinica za merenje dužine dokumenta. (various references) | |
Spanish | folio (foliation, folio number). (various references) | |
Swedish | folio, foliera (foil, foliate), foliant, pagina (page), manusblad, helark. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaprak (blade, frond, lamina, laminated, leaf, sheet), katlanmış kâğıt, karşılıklı iki sayfa, büyük boy kitap, büyük boy daktilo kâğıt. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фоліант (tome), номер сторінки. (various references) | |
Welsh | unplyg (ingenuous, of one fold, simple). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | folio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "folio": folioed, folioing, folios, foliose, folious. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "folio": portfolio. (additional references) | |
Words containing "folio": portfolios, trifoliolate, unifoliolate. (additional references) | |
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"Folio" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afolbi, colio, Dolivo, Dolmio, Faulazo, Fedio, felia, Feliho, Felim, felion, Feliu, Figlio, filii, filikon, filio, Filion, Filipo, Filipov, Filliou, florio, Floto, Floya, Fodio, Foglia, foii, foile, foio, foiu, Folea, folik, Folin, foliop, folit, follie, Folligon, follik, follio, follo, folye, Forio, Forli, fovie, fozio, frolie, Frolov, Fulco, fuli, fulvii, Fulvio, fylgia, Golikov, ofio, solio, Wolio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-l-o-o" | |
-1 letter: filo, foil, fool, loof, olio. | |
-2 letters: fil, loo, oil. | |
-3 letters: if, li, lo, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-l-o-o" | |
+1 letter: flooie, folios. | |
+2 letters: boiloff, floosie, floozie, folioed, foliose, folious, fooling, foolish, goofily, monofil, witloof. | |
+3 letters: aerofoil, bloodfin, boiloffs, coliform, flooding, floodlit, flooring, floosies, floozies, folioing, foolfish, foothill, footlike, footling, foozling, hooflike, monofils, oilproof, rooflike, roofline, witloofs. | |
+4 letters: aerofoils, befooling, bloodfins, coliforms, colorific, felonious, flavonoid, floorings, flotation, fluorosis, fluorotic, foliation, folkloric, following, fooleries, foolisher, foolishly, foothills, fossorial, frivolous, hydrofoil, lifeblood, nonfossil, olfaction, portfolio, rooflines, shooflies, solfeggio, ufologies, ufologist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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