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foliate

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"Leafy"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊliət/Part of speech adjective, verbSorted aefilotStarts with FEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

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

Word 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”)).

Used in a sentence

  • foliate gold
  • to foliate a looking-glass

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