foliatus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fo.liˈaː.tus/, [fɔlʲiˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo.liˈa.tus/, [foliˈäːt̪us]

Etymology 1

From folium (“leaf”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”).

Adjective

foliātus (feminine foliāta, neuter foliātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. leaved, leafy, having leaves

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	foliātus	foliāta	foliātum		foliātī	foliātae	foliāta
Genitive	foliātī	foliātae	foliātī		foliātōrum	foliātārum	foliātōrum
Dative	foliātō		foliātō		foliātīs
Accusative	foliātum	foliātam	foliātum		foliātōs	foliātās	foliāta
Ablative	foliātō	foliātā	foliātō		foliātīs
Vocative	foliāte	foliāta	foliātum		foliātī	foliātae	foliāta

Derived terms

• foliātilis
• foliātum

Related terms

• foliāceus
• foliātūra
• foliōsus
• folium

Descendants

• English: foliate

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of foliō (“to beat into leaf”), used adjectivally.

Adjective

foliātus (feminine foliāta, neuter foliātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) (pharmacy, of a metal, such as gold) beaten into leaf

   Synonym: foliāticus

   • [1856, Arnold James Cooley, A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades, including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy, 3rd edition (overall work in English), page 534:

     GOLD (Leaf). Syn. Aurum Foliatum, A. in libellis,—Lat. Gold reduced to leaves by hammering it between thin animal membrane. Its preparation constitutes the trade of the goldbeater. These leaves are only 1-282,000th of an inch in thickness. Gilt silver is hammered in the same way, but the leaves are thicker. The latter is called "party gold." Both are used by artists and gilders, and by druggists to gild pills, &c.

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References

• “foliatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foliatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “foliare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC