adjective · rare

foliate

fol·i·ate

foliate · more foliate · most foliate

Of or relating to leavesOf or relating to leaves.

UK/ˈfəʊliət/US/ˈfoʊliət/

Meaning

7 senses

Of or relating to leaves.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
Of a plant: having leaves.
(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
(obsolete)In the form of a foil or thin sheet.
foliate gold

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin foliātus (“having leaves, leafy, leaved”) (see -ate (adjectiv

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”)).

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