foliate

Meanings

Plural: foliates

Verb

hammer into thin flat foils
- "foliate metal"
decorate with leaves
coat or back with metal foil
- "foliate glass"
number the pages of a book or manuscript
grow leaves
- "the tree foliated in Spring"
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.
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 decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
To split into layers or leaves.
Of a plant: to produce leaves.

Adjective

ornamented with foliage or foils
- "foliate tracery"
- "a foliated capital"

Adjective Satellite

(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
- "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

Adj

Of or relating to leaves.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
Of a plant: having leaves.
Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

Noun

A logocyclic curve.

Origin / Etymology

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”)).

Synonyms

foliaceous, foliar, foliated, leaf-shaped, leafy, leaved, page, paginate

Antonyms

nonfoliate

Scrabble Score: 10

foliate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
foliate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
foliate is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

foliate is a valid Words With Friends word