fold (v.) Copy link Outline I. To double up1. plĭco, āvi and ui, ātum, 12. complĭco, 13. replĭco, 1II. To pen sheep • fold (v.): I. To double up: 1. plĭco, āvi and ui, ātum, 1: to f. a sheet of paper, chartam p., Mart. 4, 82, fin. 2. complĭco, 1: to f. up a letter, epistolam c., Cic. Att. 12, 1. 3. replĭco, 1: f.ing back outside the inside of its skin (of a serpent), replicans ut extra fiat membranae quod fuerat intus, Plin. 8, 27, 41. Phr.: to f. the hands, digitos pectinatim inter se plectere, Plin. 28, 6, 17 (comp. Ov. Met. 9, 299): less precisely, to sit with f.'d hands (idle), manibus, quod aiunt, compressis sedere, Liv. 7, 14, med.: to stretch forth f.'d hands, duplices tendere palmas, Virg. Aen. 1, 94. II. To pen sheep: septis inclūdo, si, sum, 3: Varr.: v. fold (subs.).