fol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

Adjective

fol

1. Alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

Further reading

• “fol” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin follis (“bellows, purse”), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/

Noun

fol m (plural foles)

1. bag (of bagpipes)
2. bellows
3. bag, sack, goatskin

   home pequeno, fol de veleno

   a little man, a bag of poison

   (proverb)

4. (archaic) a madman

References

• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fol” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fol” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “fol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Old French fol.

Adjective

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

Noun

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)

1. madman (person who is insane)

Etymology

From Latin follis, follem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

Etymology

From Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

Adjective

fol

1. mad; insane; crazy

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fol

1. (cardinal) four

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

Noun

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol