Etymology

folic

F4O1L1I1C3

Today it means: Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid. Full definition →

Latin folium
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfolium“leaf”
  2. English todayfolic

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ic. Coined in 1941 (see quote below).

Words from the same roots

Latinfolium all →

foliagefoliofoliationfoliumfolic acidfoliferousfoliformfoliicolousfoliolefoliophagousfoliophagyfolivoretaxifolin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.