follis

From Latin follis (“a bag”). Doublet of fool.

follis

1. A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.

• fillos

follis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of follar

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, o-grade i-stem derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”). Cognates include Sanskrit बर्हिस् (barhís, “straw, sacrificial straw”), Old English belġ (“bulge, bag, purse”) (English belly) and belġan (“to swell with anger”), Old Prussian balsinis (“cushion”) and Old Irish bolg (“belly; bag; bellows”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfol.lis/, [ˈfɔl.lɪs]

follis m (genitive follis); third declension

1. bellows
2. purse, sack, money bag
3. (by extension) a small value coin
4. an inflated ball
5. paunch, belly
6. (poetic) puffed cheeks

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: foali
  • Romanian: foale
• Italian: folle
• Old French: fol
  • Middle French: fol
    • French: fol, fou
      • Mauritian Creole: fol
  • Norman: fo m, folle f
  • → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
    • English: fool
    • Scots: fule, fuil
  • → Old Danish: fol
    • Danish: fjols
  • ⇒ Old French: folie
    • French: folie
    • → Middle English: folye, foly, folie, foli, foolie, fooli, fooly, ffoly, ffolye
      • English: folly
      • Scots: folly
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: fuelle
• Old Occitan: fol
  • Catalan: foll
• Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  • Galician: fol
  • Portuguese: fole
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: follar, fuelle
• Sardinian: fodhe
• Sicilian: foddi
• Venetian: folo, foło, fol
• → Alemannic German: Folle
• → Ancient Greek: φόλλις (phóllis)
  • → Aramaic: פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ‎ (/fuləsā, filas/)
    • → Arabic: فِلْس‎ (fils)
      • Hijazi Arabic: فلوس‎ (fulūs, filūs)
      • Maltese: flus
      • Moroccan Arabic: فلوس‎ (fluus)
      • → English: fils, fals
      • → French: flouze
• → English: follis

• follis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• follis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• follis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• follis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• follis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• follis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin