leaf Copy link Outline I. Of a tree or plant1. fŏlium2. collect. frons, dis, f. (a mass of l.s)II. Of a book1. schĕda or scĭda (a strip of papyrus paper; of whatever size)2. pāgĭna (the side of a scheda prepared for writing; a pageIII. Of metalIV. Of a door, etc. • leaf: I. Of a tree or plant: 1. fŏlium: Cic. Plin. Fig.. leaves of paper, chartarum folia, Plin. 37, 7, 29 (but Jahn reads fila). Full of l.s, foliosus, Plin. 2. collect. frons, dis, f. (a mass of l.s): to run all to l., in frondem luxuriare, Plin. 19, 6, 34: young (half-grown) l.s, immatura f., Quint. 12, 6, 3: v. foliage. To be in l., frondēre, Virg. E. 3, 57: Col.: incept. frondescere, to come into l., Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37: Virg. II. Of a book: 1. schĕda or scĭda (a strip of papyrus paper; of whatever size): that not a single l. may be lost, ut scida ne qua depereat, Cic. Att. 1, 20, fin.: in Quint. 1, 8, 19, indignas lectione schedas, the word is used much as we use volumes: so, Mart. 4, extr., summa scheda is the end of a scroll: Lach. Comment. Lucr. 2. pāgĭna (the side of a scheda prepared for writing; a page: meton. a leaf): Lach. Comment. Lucr. p. 1. See also sheet. (There seems to be no classical authority for folium in this sense: but it is used by modern Latinists, e. g. Orelli, pref. Vell. p. viii.; Lach. Comment. Lucr. p. 5, schedae sive folia dicere volumus.) Phr.: 'tis time to turn over a new l., nunc hic dies aliam vitam affert, alios mores postulat, Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 18. III. Of metal: bractea: gold-l., auri b., Lucr. 4, 729. Dimin. bracteola, Juv. See also plate. IV. Of a door, etc.: in pl., fores, valvae: v. door.