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語源

Borrowed from Old French fol, from Latin follis. First attested in c. 1225.

発音

• IPA: /foːl/

名詞

fol (plural foles)

1. A fool or idiot; someone stupid or thoughtless.
   • c. 1300, “[Prologue]”, in Curſoꝛ Mundı (Trinity College MS. R. 3.8), Staffordshire, published c. 1400, folio 1, recto, column 1; republished at Cambridge: Trinity College, 23 June 2017:

     To rede ⁊ here mony are pꝛeſt / Of þınges þ hem likeþ beſt / þe wıſe mon wol of wıſdome here / þe fool hım draweþ to foly nere

     Many are prepared to read and hear / about things that they like the best; / the wise person will listen to wisdom, / [and] the fool gives themself folly […]

2. An entertainer or joker; somebody who is employed to provide amusement.
3. (rare) Someone (temporarily) incapacitated or shocked.
4. (rare) A mark (victim of a con or scam)

派生語

派生した語

• English: fool

  Geordie: fuil, feul

• Scots: fule, fuil
• → Welsh: ffôl

形容詞

fol

1. Foolish, idiotic, ridiculous.
2. Evil, iniquitous, malign.
3. Sinful or immoral (especially sexually)

派生した語

• Scots: fule, fuil

参照

• “fọ̄l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 July 2018.
• “fọ̄l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 July 2018.

使用する際の注意点

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Subdivisions", Table T16, p. 472-73.

アナグラム

• LFO, olf, lof, Flo, LOF, flo'