feuille
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Etymology
Inherited 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
Noun
feuille f (plural feuilles)
Derived terms
- brunelle à feuilles hastées
- dur de la feuille
- effeuillage
- effeuiller
- être dur de la feuille
- feuillage
- feuillaison
- feuille de boucher
- feuille de brick
- feuille de chou
- feuille de pompe
- feuille de rose
- feuille de route
- feuille de soins
- feuille d’acanthe
- feuille volante
- feuille-morte
- feuillet
- feuilleté
- feuilleter
- feuilleton
- feuillu
- mille-feuille
- portefeuille
- trèfle à quatre feuilles
- trembler comme une feuille
Descendants
- → Turkish: föy
See also
- abattant m
Further reading
- “feuille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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