folio

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fo=li=o

CIDE DICTIONARY

folio, n. [Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th Foil.].

•  A leaf of a book or manuscript.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sheet of paper once folded.  [1913 Webster]
•  A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.  [1913 Webster]
•  The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.  [1913 Webster]
•  A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.  [1913 Webster]
•  A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.  [1913 Webster]

Folio post, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.

folio, v. t. 

 To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.  [1913 Webster]

folio, a. 

 Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

folio, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -os)
1 a leaf of paper etc., esp. one numbered only on the front.
2 a leaf-number of a book.
3 a sheet of paper folded once making two leaves of a book.
4 a book made of such sheets.
--adj. (of a book) made of folios, of the largest size.

Idiom

in folio made of folios.

Etymology

L, ablat. of folium leaf, = on leaf (as specified)

THESAURUS

folio

acknowledgments, article, back, back matter, bastard title, best seller, bibliography, book, book end, book support, book table, book tray, book truck, bookcase, bookholder, bookrack, bookrest, bookshelf, bookstack, bookstand, bound book, catch line, catchword, chapter, classic, clause, colophon, coloring book, contents, contents page, copyright page, crown, dedication, definitive work, duodecimo, eighteenmo, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, fascicle, flyleaf, folder, fore edge, foreword, front matter, gathering, great work, half-title page, hardback, head, imperial, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, juvenile, juvenile book, leaf, limp-cover book, magnum opus, makeup, medium, nonbook, notebook, novel, number, octavo, octodecimo, opus, opuscule, opusculum, page, paperback, paragraph, passage, phrase, picture book, playbook, pocket book, portfolio, prayer book, preface, preliminaries, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, quarto, recto, reverso, revolving bookcase, royal, running title, section, sentence, serial, sextodecimo, sheet, signature, sixteenmo, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, stack, standard work, storybook, subtitle, super, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, tome, trade book, trim size, twelvemo, type page, verse, verso, volume, work, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

folio

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.