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6-letter words (2 found)

FILLOS,FOLLIS,

5-letter words (5 found)

FILLO,FILLS,FILOS,FOILS,LILOS,

4-letter words (11 found)

FILL,FILO,FILS,FOIL,ILLS,LILO,OILS,SILL,SILO,SOIL,SOLI,

3-letter words (11 found)

FIL,IFS,ILL,IOS,ISO,LIS,LOS,OIL,OIS,SIF,SOL,

2-letter words (10 found)

IF,IO,IS,LI,LO,OF,OI,OS,SI,SO,

You can make 39 words from follis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of follis

follis

Etymology

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

Noun

follis (plural folles)

  1. (numismatics) A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.

Anagrams

  • fillos

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfo.ʎis]

Verb

follis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of follar

Latin

Etymology

Probably inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰ-n-is, o-grade i-stem derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”) with an *-n- suffix (though De Vaan is skeptical of any etymology and leaves the origin open). 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”).

Or simply from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n-is, ultimately from the same root, i.e. *bʰel- (“to blow”), from which *bʰelǵʰ- appears to be derived.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfol.lis/, [ˈfɔlːʲɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfol.lis/, [ˈfɔlːis]

Noun

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

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