| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fo·li·o |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f  l - |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. fo·li·os
1a. A large sheet of paper folded once in the middle, making two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript. b. A book or manuscript of the largest common size, usually about 38 centimeters (15 inches) in height, consisting of such folded sheets. 2a. A leaf of a book numbered only on the front side. b. A number on such a leaf. c. A page number. 3. Accounting A page in a ledger or two facing pages that are assigned a single number. 4. Law A specific number of words used as a unit for measuring the length of the text of a document. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fo·li·oed, fo·li·o·ing, fo·li·os
To number consecutively the pages or leaves of (a book, for example). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Late Latin foli, ablative of folium, leaf of paper, from Latin, leaf. See bhel-3 in Appendix I.
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