folloa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• foloa

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *foliola, diminutive of Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈʎɔ.a/

Noun

folloa f

1. (cooking, Galicia) crepe
   • 1285, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 2, page 1114:

     tres sartageadas de folloas

     three frying panfuls of crepes

   • 1398, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 4, page 470:

     huna escudela de foloas de seseenta ovos et pan et vino con elas commo husan os outros nosos homes do couto de Olleiros.

     a tray of crepes made with sixty eggs, and bread and wine as used to give by our other men in the fief of Oleiros

Descendants

• Galician: filloa
• Portuguese: filhó

Further reading

• “folloa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.