feuille

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom?

Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom?

Proto-Italic *foljom

Classical Latin folium

Late Latin folia

Old French fueille

Middle French feuille

French feuille

Inherited from Middle French feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, plural of folium in Classical Latin, itself probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Doublet of folio, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare English foil, Spanish hoja, Portuguese folha, Catalan fulla, and Italian foglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœj/

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Noun

feuille f (plural feuilles)

1. leaf (of a plant)
2. sheet (of paper, etc)
3. (informal) ear

Derived terms

• brunelle à feuilles hastées
• dur de la feuille
• effeuillage
• effeuiller
• être dur de la feuille
• feuillage
• feuillaison
• feuille d'acanthe
• feuille de boucher
• feuille de brick
• feuille de chou
• feuille de pompe
• feuille de rose
• feuille de route
• feuille de soins
• feuille volante
• feuille-morte
• feuillet
• feuilleté
• feuilleter
• feuilleton
• feuillu
• mille-feuille
• portefeuille
• trèfle à quatre feuilles
• trembler comme une feuille

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: fèy
• → Turkish: föy

See also

• abattant m

Further reading

• “feuille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Alternative forms

• fueille

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom?

Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom?

Proto-Italic *foljom

Classical Latin folium

Late Latin folia

Old French fueille

Middle French feuille

Inherited from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium.

Noun

feuille f (plural feuilles)

1. leaf (of a plant)
2. sheet (of paper, etc)

Descendants

• French: feuille
  • Haitian Creole: fèy
  • → Turkish: föy
• → Middle English: foyle, ffoyl, foil, foile, foille, foylle, fule
  • English: foil
  • Scots: foilzie, foolyie

References

• feuille on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)