fol-a: mad, crazy, mentally deranged; (fig.)
foolish, nonsensical, senseless; -eta: (fam.)
cracked, touched (in the head); mad after, infatuated, doting on;
(cf. dementa); -(ul)o: madman, fool; -eso:
madness, folly; -ajo: mad, foolish act, prank; -a
stroko: a foolish play, act; -e amorar: to love to
distraction, be madly in love with (ulu); -igar: to make
(ulu) crazy, to make some one foolish; -eskar: to go mad,
become infatuated; -ig-it-a: maddened, distracted,
infatuated; -e ludar: to sport, romp, frolic, play
pranks; -fol-lud-ema: playful, sportive, frolicsome; -o-ceptro:
fool's bauble; kort-fol(ul)o: court-fool, -jester. Def.:
Vulgara termino, qua aplikesas precipue a la formi maxim
videbla e shokanta di alienaco, a ti qui manifestas su per
sensenca parolado, agiteso e violento; VI — 244 — EFI
folad-o:(bivalve) pholas, stoneborer, piddocks
(family: Pholadidae). — EFIRS
foli-o:(bot.) leaf; thin sheet of something;
folio: page number (folio 12 = pagino 12 of a sheet of which the
reverse side is blank); -aro: foliage, leaves (collect.); -eto:
leaflet; (bot.) foliole; -ala: relating to leaves; -oza:
leafy; (bot.) foliated; -ifar, -eskar: to produce
l.s, break forth in l.; -igar: to make into l.form; -if(ad),
-iz(ad)o: foliation, leafing; -iz-ita: foliated,
flaky; -o-shirmo: bower (of leaves); -o-rekolto:
leaf-harvest; sen- -igar: to strip of leaves; -ajo:
(arch.) foliaceous ornament, leaf-work; (cf. florono);
-umar: to turn over the leaves of a book. — eFIRS
folieton-o: feuilleton, literary part of a F. newspaper; -isto:
a writer of f.s. — DeFRS
folikul-o:(bot., anat.) follicle. — DEFIRS
folklor-o: folklore. Def.: Ico esas nek populala
literaturo, nek populala tradicionaro, ma l'ensemblo di la verki,
rakonti, kanti, kustumi qui naskis de la populo e karakterizas
ol, e lua studiado: VII-279. — DEFR
foment-ar:(tr., med.) to foment, apply warm
lotions to; (fig.) to encourage, stir up. — DEFIS
fond-ar:(tr.) to found, establish (ulo, sur
ulo); (cf. establisar); -ajo, -uro: that which
is founded, establishment, foundation (cf. fundamento).
Ex.: Il fondis sua sistemo sur fakti nekontestebla. Fondar
komercala firmo, imperio, religio. — DEFIS
fonetik-o: phonetics. — DEFIRS
fonograf-ar:(tr.) to record (ulo) on a
phonograph; -ilo: phonograph; -uro:
phonograph-record; plear -ilo: to play a phonograph —
DEFIRS
fonolit-o*:(min.) phonolite. — DEF
fonometr-o: phonometer. — DEFIRS
font-o:(pr. and fig.) font, spring: natural source
(cf. fonteno); -aquo: spring-water. Ex.: La fonti
di Nil. Acensar rivero til la fonto. La fonto di lo bona e di lo
mala. Laboro esas la fonto di richaji. Recevar novaji de bona
fonto. — EFIRS
fontanel-o:(anat.) fontanel. — DEFIS
fonten-o: (artificial) fountain; -plumo: f. pen.
— DEFIR
for:(prep.) far from, away from; -e: (far)
away; -a: distant, remote, far distant (de); -ajo:
a distant object; distance (prospect); de fore: from a, at
a, distance; -esar: to be away; -igar: to remove,
send away; - de hike: a great way off (from here); -eso:
remoteness; -irar: to go away; -a komerco, navig-ado:
foreign trade, navigation. (In composition with verbs «away» as
in: for-duktar, -portar, -tirar, -tranar, etc.); il
esas for sua patrio: he is away from his fatherland; il
vidis il de fore: he saw him from a distance; kad vu volas
forirar? do you wish to go away? la soldato forkuris:
the soldier ran away. — e
forc-o:(mechan.) force. Ex.: La forci natural esas
l'aero, l'aquo, e.c. Forco centripetala.
forcat-o: galley-slave, convict (condemned to hard labor).
— FIS
forceps-o:(surg.) forceps, an instrument used in
midwifery (cf. pinc-eto). — DeFIS
forej-o: forage, fodder, food for beasts; -ifar: to
forage (for fodder); -o-planti: plants fit for fodder.
— DEFIRS
forest-o: forest; -ala: pertaining to f.s, silvan; -isto:
forester; -o-kultivado: forestry; -izar: to cover
with f. — DEFIR
forfet-o: contract, tender (at a stipulated price, whether
the contractor lose or gain); -ale: by contract, by the
job, at a lump sum; kontratar per forfeto: to engage to do
(ulo) by contract. Def.: Kontrato per qua on engajas su
exekutar ula laboro po totala sumo fixigita antee; IV-454. —
FI
forfikul-o:(ent.) earwig (family: Forficulidae).
— IL