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語源 1

Macaroons on a foliate plate (adjective adjective sense 2).

The folium of Descartes (green) is a foliate curve (adjective adjective sense 2.1) generated by the implicit equation ${\\\\displaystyle x^{3}+y^{3}-3axy=0}$. The dashed blue line is the asymptote.

The blackberry (genus Rubus) has a five-foliated compound leaf (adjective adjective sense 3.2).

Gneiss is a kind of foliate rock (adjective adjective sense 4).

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”)).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfəʊliət/, /-eɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfoʊliət/, /-ˌeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: fol‧i‧ate

形容詞

foliate (comparative more foliate, superlative most foliate)

1. Of or relating to leaves.

   Synonym: foliar

2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.

   Synonyms: foliaceous, leaf-shaped, leafy

   Antonym: nonfoliate

   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 106:

     In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars.

   1. (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
3. (botany)
   1. Of a plant: having leaves.

      Synonyms: leafy, leaved

      Antonym: nonfoliate

   2. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
4. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
5. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

   foliate gold

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching Appetite of Vnion in Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 293, page 75:

     But note, that all Solide Bodies are Cleauing, more or leſſe: And that they loue better the Touch of ſomevvhat that is Tangible, than of Aire. For VVater, in ſmall quantity, cleaueth to any Thing that is Solide; […] And therfore Gold Foliate, or any Metall Foliate, cleaueth: […]

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Tenents Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, which Examined, Prove either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 3, page 85:

     [T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […] as is very evident, not only in the ſvvallowing of golden bullets but in the leſſer and foliate diviſions thereof, paſſing the ſtomack and guts even as it doth the throat, that is vvithout abatement of vveight or conſiſtences; […]

派生語

関連する語

• foil
• foliaceous
• foliar
• folio
• folium

語源 2

From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia +‎ -ate (noun-forming suffix).

名詞

foliate (plural foliates)

1. (geometry) A logocyclic curve.

語源 3

From Latin folium (“leaf”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfəʊlieɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfoʊliˌeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: fol‧i‧ate

動詞

foliate (third-person singular simple present foliates, present participle foliating, simple past and past participle foliated)

1. (transitive)
   1. To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
   2. To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.

      to foliate a looking-glass

      • 1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Observ[ation] XIII. Of the Small Diamants, or Sparks in Flints.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 83:

        [T]he production of the Rainbovv is as much to be aſcribed to the reflection of the concave ſurface of the air, as to the refraction of the Globular drops: this vvill be evidently manifeſt by theſe Experiments, if you foliate that part of a Glaſs-ball that is to reflect an Iris, as in the Carteſian Experiment, above mention'd, the reflections vvill be abundantly more ſtrong, and the colours more vivid: […]

   3. (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
      • 1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 13:

        All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.

   4. (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
      • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part II.] Prop[osition] X. Prob[lem] V. [Exper[iment] XVII.]”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 140:

        [I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.

2. (intransitive)
   1. To split into layers or leaves.
   2. (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• foliation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• floatie

形容詞

foliāte

1. vocative masculine singular of foliātus