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folio

[ foh-lee-oh ]

noun

, plural fo·li·os.
  1. a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
  2. a volume having pages of the largest size, formerly made from such a sheet.
  3. a leaf of a manuscript or book numbered only on the front side.
  4. a case that, when closed, covers and protects both the screen and the back panel of a mobile device, as a tablet or smartphone.
  5. Printing.
    1. (in a book) the number of each page.
    2. (in a newspaper) the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
  6. Bookkeeping. a page of an account book or a left-hand page and a right-hand page facing each other and having the same serial number.
  7. Law. a certain number of words, in the U.S. generally 100, taken as a unit for computing the length of a document.


adjective

  1. pertaining to or having the format of a folio:

    a folio volume.

verb (used with object)

, fo·li·oed, fo·li·o·ing.
  1. to number each leaf or page of.
  2. Law. to mark each folio in (a pleading or the like) with the proper number.

folio

/ ˈfəʊlɪəʊ /

noun

  1. a sheet of paper folded in half to make two leaves for a book or manuscript
  2. a book or manuscript of the largest common size made up of such sheets
  3. a leaf of paper or parchment numbered on the front side only
  4. a page number in a book
  5. law a unit of measurement of the length of legal documents, determined by the number of words, generally 72 or 90 in Britain and 100 in the US
  6. a collection of related material


adjective

  1. relating to or having the format of a folio

    a folio edition

verb

  1. tr to number the leaves of (a book) consecutively

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Word History and Origins

Origin of folio1

1525–35; < Latin foliō (originally in phrase in foliō in a leaf, sheet), ablative of folium folium

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Word History and Origins

Origin of folio1

C16: from Latin phrase in foliō in a leaf, from folium leaf

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Example Sentences

Over the course of nearly 25 years Priore stole roughly 320 items from the library, badly damaging many atlases and folios in the process.

Like yacht and horse racing, wine making is a wildly expensive proposition, says Michael Mondavi, founder of Folio Wines.

Now if we double the last 16, it gives us the date of the second Folio in 32 and 32 reversed gives us the date of the first Folio.

It was a middle sized folio, of 1,090 pages and sold for three rix dollars a copy.

He visited us at Thorpe several times, and was unusually well and in good spirits, with sketchbook or folio always in hand.

Folio volumes with copper-plates have been written on it; and are not yet all pasted in bandboxes, or slit into spills.

The fourth Folio appeared in 1685 or 21 years after the third Folio.

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