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Inherited from Middle French feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, plural of folium in Classical Latin, itself probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Doublet of folio, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare English foil, Spanish hoja, Portuguese folha, Catalan fulla, and Italian foglia.

• IPA^(key): /fœj/

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feuille f (plural feuilles)

1. leaf (of a plant)
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], page 2:

     Les membres principaux de la plante sont au nombre de trois : la racine, la tige, la feuille.

     There are three main parts of the plant: the root, the stem, and the leaf.

2. sheet (of paper, etc)
3. (informal) ear

• Haitian Creole: fèy
• → Turkish: föy

• abattant m

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

• fueille

Inherited from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium.

feuille f (plural feuilles)

1. leaf (of a plant)
2. sheet (of paper, etc)

• French: feuille
  • Haitian Creole: fèy
  • → Turkish: föy
• → Middle English: foyle, ffoyl, foil, foile, foille, foylle, fule
  • English: foil
  • Scots: foilzie, foolyie

• feuille on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)