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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese folia, from Old French folie (“madness, folly”).
Pronunciation
Noun
folía f (plural folías)
- feast, party, merrymaking
- Synonyms: esmorga, festa, foliada, ruada, troula, xolda
- (dated) folly
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 112:
Et mays vos digo, que nõ queria por mjll marcos de ouro que estes mesageyros dos gregos rreçebesem desonrra nẽ mal nẽ dãno, nẽ que se y fezese tal folia; nẽ he rrazõ nẽ dereyto.- And I tell you more, that I didn't want, not even for a thousand marks of gold, that these messengers of the Greek would had received any dishonour or wrong or injury, nor that there was committed such a folly; because it is not right nor reason
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “folia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “folia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “folia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “folía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega