folle

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

folle

1. feminine singular of fou

• Louisiana Creole: fòl

folle f (plural folles)

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

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

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

Inherited from Latin follem (“bellows”).

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

folle m (plural folli)

1. (archaic) bellows

   Synonym: mantice

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, /ˈfol.le/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔlle, -olle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le, fól‧le

folle m or f (plural folli)

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

folle m or f by sense (plural folli)

1. madman; madwoman

• follemente
• follia
• in folle

Borrowed from Latin follem (“money bag”).

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

folle m (plural folli)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl.le/, (traditional) /ˈfol.le/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔlle, (traditional) -olle
• Hyphenation: fòl‧le, (traditional) fól‧le

folle f pl

1. plural of folla

• 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

• fello

folle

1. ablative singular of follis

folle

1. alternative form of fulle

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

folle f (plural folles)

1. (Jersey) madwoman

folle

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

• fålle

folle c

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

• fulle (Hindeloopen)
• fole (Schiermonnikoog)

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

folle

1. many, much

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

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