folle

See also: Folle and follé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

folle

1. feminine singular of fou

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: fòl

Noun

folle f (plural folles)

1. madwoman
2. (slang) queen (male homosexual)

Derived terms

• follasse, folasse
• folle de la gâchette
• follitude, folitude

Further reading

• “folle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin follem (“bellows”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le

Noun

folle m (plural folli)

1. (archaic) bellows

   Synonym: mantice

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin follem (“bellows”), through the figurative sense of “airhead”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, /ˈfol.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle, -olle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le, fól‧le

Adjective

folle (plural folli)

1. mad; insane
2. (automotive) idle, neutral (of a gear wheel)

Noun

folle m or f by sense (plural folli)

1. madman; madwoman

Derived terms

• follemente
• follia
• in folle

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin follem (“money bag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le

Noun

folle m (plural folli)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) follis (bronze coin)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, (traditional) /ˈfol.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle, (traditional) -olle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le, (traditional) fól‧le

Noun

folle f pl

1. plural of folla

Further reading

• folle¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• folle² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• folle³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• fello

Latin

Noun

folle

1. ablative singular of follis

Middle English

Noun

folle

1. Alternative form of fulle

Norman

Etymology

Old French fole, feminine of fol (“mad”) from Latin follis.

Noun

folle f (plural folles)

1. (Jersey) madwoman

Spanish

Verb

folle

1. inflection of follar (“to fuck”):
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Alternative forms

• fålle

Noun

folle c

1. (slang) Synonym of folköl (in both the beer and serving of beer sense)

Declension

Declension of folle
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	folle	follen	follar	follarna
Genitive	folles	follens	follars	follarnas

West Frisian

Alternative forms

• fulle (Hindeloopen)
• fole (Schiermonnikoog)

Etymology

From Old Frisian fule, from Proto-West Germanic *fulu.

Determiner

folle

1. many, much

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “folle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011