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folle

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See also: Folle and follé

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔl/
    • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

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folle

  1. feminine singular of fou

Descendants

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  • Louisiana Creole: fòl

Noun

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folle f (plural folles)

  1. madwoman
  2. (slang) queen (male homosexual)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin follem (bellows).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folle m (plural folli)

  1. (archaic) bellows
    Synonym: mantice

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin follem (bellows), through the figurative sense of “airhead”.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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folle (plural folli)

  1. mad; insane
  2. (automotive) idle, neutral (of a gear wheel)

Noun

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folle m or f by sense (plural folli)

  1. madman; madwoman
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Latin follem (money bag).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folle m (plural folli)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) follis (bronze coin)

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, (traditional) /ˈfol.le/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔlle, (traditional) -olle
  • Hyphenation: fòl‧le, (traditional) fól‧le

Noun

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folle f pl

  1. plural of folla

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 folle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • folle1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • folle2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • folle3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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folle

  1. ablative singular of follis

Middle English

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Noun

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folle

  1. Alternative form of fulle

Norman

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Etymology

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Old French fole, feminine of fol (mad) from Latin follis.

Noun

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folle f (plural folles)

  1. (Jersey) madwoman

Spanish

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Verb

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folle

  1. inflection of follar (to fuck):
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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folle c

  1. (slang) Synonym of folköl (in both the beer and serving of beer sense)

Declension

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Declension of folle
nominative genitive
singular indefinite folle folles
definite follen follens
plural indefinite follar follars
definite follarna follarnas

West Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian fule, from Proto-West Germanic *fulu.

Determiner

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folle

  1. many, much

Inflection

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This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • folle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011