The story
- Latin · borrowed fromfolium“leaf”
- English todayfolium
From Latin folium (“leaf”). Doublet of foil and folio, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.
Words from the same roots
Latinfolium all →
foliagefoliofolicfoliationfolic acidfoliferousfoliformfoliicolousfoliolefoliophagousfoliophagyfolivoretaxifolin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.