Definitions
a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
Word origin
From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Used in a sentence
“verso left-hand page of a book usually identified with even folio numbers. […] recto right-hand page of a book usually identified with odd folio numbers.”
“A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio.”
“The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Large book volume”5 letters
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