folio
pronunciation
How to pronounce folio in British English:
UK [ˈfəʊliəʊ]
How to pronounce folio in American English:
US [ˈfoʊlioʊ]
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- Noun:
- the system of numbering pages
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
Word Origin
- folio
- folio: see foil
- folio (n.)
- mid-15c., from Late Latin folio "leaf or sheet of paper," from Latin folio, ablative of folium "leaf," from PIE *bhol-yo- "leaf" (cognates: Greek phyllon "leaf," Gaelic bile "leaflet, blossom"), suffixed form of root *bhel- (3) "to thrive, bloom," which is possibly from *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole). Ablative of location, because this was used in page references. Meaning "volume of the largest size" first attested 1620s.
Example
- 1. One difference : the folio allows the ipad 2 to be used only in horizontal mode while in the case .
- 2. This book on literature has been brought out in folio .
- 3. The manuscript you sent us has a folio missing .
- 4. Does a pedant digest his commonplace book into a folio ? He quickly becomes great .
- 5. He copied the words which folio . Wed with exactitude .