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• folia
  folia

  noun

  plural of folium.
• folía
  folía

  noun

  an early medieval Iberian dance accompanied by mime and songs, performed during celebrations of the solstice and New Year festivals.

folia

¹ American  

[foh-lee-uh] / ˈfoʊ li ə /

noun

1. plural of folium.

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folia ² American  

[fuh-lee-uh] / fəˈli ə /

noun

1. a wild and noisy Portuguese carnival dance accompanied by tambourines, performed at a frantic pace by men dressed as women and often carrying masked boys on their shoulders.

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folía ³ American  

[faw-lee-ah] / fɔˈli ɑ /

noun

plural

folías

1. an early medieval Iberian dance accompanied by mime and songs, performed during celebrations of the solstice and New Year festivals.

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folia British  

/ ˈfəʊlɪə /

noun

1. the plural of folium

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Etymology

Origin of folia²

see origin at folía

Origin of folía³

1780–85; < Spanish folía or Portuguese folia literally, madness, folly ≪ Old Provençal, equivalent to fol foolish, mad + -ia -y ³; see fool ¹, folly

Example Sentences

Look with insight into a small corner of the musical past, we learn from Savall, and history itself is folia writ large.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2020

There were two complex hexameters, but all that remained in his memory of the rest were two or three disjointed phrases: Lapsa cadunt folia ... ubi frigidus annus ... et    ... terris apricis.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Stolones repunt non caulis florifer, cui folia ovalia, et minime cordata.

From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 1 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by Curtis, William

The mica, with large folia, lies in the direction of the dip of the strata.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Codices enim membranacei ferè per quaterniones digerebantur, hoc est quatuor folia simul compacta, ut terniones tria sunt folia simul compacta.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose