The story
- Latin · derived fromfoliātus“foliate”
- Latin · derived fromper-“through”
- New Latin · borrowed fromperfoliāta
- English todayperfoliate
Borrowed from New Latin perfoliāta, from Latin per- (“through”) + the feminine of Latin foliātus (“foliate”).
Words from the same roots
Latinper- all →
pargetpercumbentperfervid
Latinfoliātus all →
foliatetrifoliate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.