folio
/ˈfəʊlɪəʊ
/noun (plural folios)
1An individual leaf of paper or parchment, either loose as one of a series or forming part of a bound volume, which is numbered on the recto or front side only.‘Restored and put under glass, the folios could be gingerly handled, and it was possible to photograph all the pages,’ he said....
- The folios will debut at Artexpo New York along with a limited-edition giclee print of ‘Moon Rider.’
- Today it has been pulled apart, the folios bound to a cardboard binder.
1.1The page number in a printed book.The specific piece of evidence is an entry given within the book, on the front of folio 327, dating from 1635....
- The combination of second-person speech and frontal gaze of the princess on folio 3v indicates to him that the book was expressly produced for her young foreign eyes.
- The earlier set of ordinances are on folios 17-19, the original custumal on ff.20-49, and the later set of ordinances on ff.74-77.
2A sheet of paper folded once to form two leaves (four pages) of a book.Once the pages were finished they were folded into the folios and placed up to eight pages in depth....
- His own grammar fills 13 double-column folio pages in his two-volume dictionary.
- The presence of empty, but ruled, folios at the end of the volume suggests that FVB was a work in progress.
2.1A size of book made up of folio sheets of paper.Wadum suggests that some of the five books in folio and 25 other books might have been manuals such as those cited by Swillens....
- And that's without me looking at the folio size books.
- These were engraved in two sizes: folio, and a smaller series as book illustrations.
2.2A book or manuscript made up of folio sheets of paper; a volume of the largest standard size.Up to now it is more than a hundred folios of manuscript....
- The desktop itself was lost beneath teetering stacks of leather-bound volumes and slim folios that formed a parapet around the edges of the desk.
- She dedicated her lavish folio volume, in large print, to her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Cavendish, in gratitude.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin, ablative of folium 'leaf', in medieval Latin used in references to mean 'on leaf so-and-so'. The original sense of in folio (from Italian in foglio) was 'in the form of a full-sized sheet or leaf folded once' (designating the largest size of book).