foliage

English

Alternative forms

• foilage (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard)
• feuillage (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

1. The leaves of plants.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. (short for) Fall foliage.
3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

Derived terms

• foliaged
• foliage-gleaner
• foliage leaf
• foliagelike
• foliageous
• foliologist
• snowliage

Translations

the leaves of plants

• Armenian: սաղարթ (hy) (saġartʻ)
• Belarusian: лі́сце n (líscje), лісцё n (liscjó), лісто́та f (listóta)
• Bulgarian: шу́ма (bg) f (šúma), листа́к (bg) m (listák)
• Catalan: fullatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葉子 / 叶子 (zh) (yèzi)

• Czech: listí (cs) n
• Danish: løv c
• Dutch: gebladerte (nl)
• Esperanto: foliaro
• Faroese: leyv (fo) n
• Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl, lehvistö
• French: feuillage (fr) m
• Friulian: frind m
• Galician: rama (gl) f, ramaxe f, follaxe (gl) f
• German: Blätter (de) n pl, Laub (de) n, Laubwerk (de) n, Blätterwerk (de) n, Beblätterung f
• Greek: φύλλωμα (el) n (fýlloma), φυλλωσιά (el) f (fyllosiá)
• Hebrew: עַלְוָה (he) f (alvá)
• Hindi: पर्णसमूह m (parṇasmūh)
• Hungarian: lomb (hu)
• Ido: foliaro (io)
• Irish: duilliúr m, clúmh m
• Italian: fogliame (it) m
• Japanese: 木の葉 (ja) (このは, ko no ha)
• Khiamniungan Naga: chá
• Korean: 나뭇잎 (ko) (namunnip)
• Latin: frons f
• Macedonian: лисја m or n (lisja), лисје m pl (lisje)
• Malay: dedaun
• Maori: raurau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bladverk n, løvverk n

• Polish: listowie (pl) n, liście (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: folhagem (pt) f
• Romanian: frunze (ro) f pl, frunziș (ro) n, frunzărime (ro) f
• Russian: листва́ (ru) f (listvá), ли́стья (ru) m pl (lístʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ли̑шће n

  Roman: lȋšće (sh) n

• Slovak: lístie (sk) n
• Slovene: listje n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: list m

• Spanish: follaje (es) m
• Swedish: lövverk (sv) n, bladverk (sv) n
• Tagalog: kadahunan
• Ukrainian: ли́стя n (lýstja)
• Venetan: stram (vec) m
• Volapük: bledem (vo)
• Welsh: deiliant m

fall foliage — see autumn foliage

an architectural ornament

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: feuillage (fr) m
• Portuguese: folhame m
• Spanish: ataurique (es) m

Anagrams

• foilage