Follis

The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that "fool" in its usual sense is Middle English, from Old French, from Latin 'follis' meaning 'bellows or empty-headed person'. ❋ Carla (2008)

"Fool" is from the Latin, follis, which means, "bellows, ball filled with air." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even the shade of pink used is more in keeping with your blog – dusky and womanly rather than the girly.nicola. follis | ❋ Unknown (2007)

The follis coin indicates that activities continued in this section of the baths until the late sixth or early seventh century A.D. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The eastern sondage yielded material that was similar to that of the layer immediately above floor level, with several special finds such as a terracotta horse figurine, some late-Roman coins (among them a half follis dated to the reign of the emperor Mauritius, A.D. 582-602) and a small pendulant (?) in semi-precious material. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The topsoil contained a small amount of mid-Byzantine common wares, as well as a late eleventh-century A.D. coin (an anonymous follis). ❋ Unknown (2003)

A small number of coins can be attributed to this period -- this week we found two coins dated to the reign of Constantine IX (r. 1059-1067) and an anonymous follis of 1068-1072. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Phase 3: During the middle Byzantine period (eleventh century, again confirmed by an anonymous follis dated to the years 1078-1081), material was dumped here, inside the remains of the second encroachment phase, together with earlier refuse. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The anonymous follis from the Apollo Klarios temple, found by the recording team and dated to the years A.D. 1028-1034, after cleaning ❋ Unknown (2003)

Those from the Colonnaded Street and the Macellum excavation were generally in fairly poor condition; the mid-Byzantine coin from the excavation of the Apollo Klarios site, an anonymous follis dated to the year A.D. 1028-1034, was better preserved and retained a patinated surface. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A follis found in the destruction layer of Room 4 of the Macellum after manual cleaning. ❋ Unknown (2003)

An important discovery from this layer, revealed by M. Waelkens's study of the coins found, was a follis (late coin type) minted under Heraclius and his son Heraclius Constantine between A.D. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Dangling on a string between them was a heavy Byzantine bronze coin, possibly a _follis_. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)

Among the Romans there appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the _pila_, or small ball, used in catching games, the _paganica_, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the _follis_, a leather ball filled with air, the largest of the three. ❋ Various (N/A)

He reduced the expenses of the treasury and Court, and did away with the gleba, or follis, an opressive tax on property that was specially obnoxious to the upper classes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Among the ancients, games with the "pila" were those played with the "pila trigonalis," so called, probably, from the players standing in a triangle, and those with the "follis," which was a larger ball, inflated with air and struck with the hands, or used for a football. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1847)

The name of follis (see Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxviii. p. 727) was equally applied to ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

Certainly that was the opinion of the Latin speakers who began referring to people as wind bags employing the Latin term follis. ❋ Charles Hodgson (2010)

The parent word of this little bag for growing hair was follis which meant "bag" but more specifically a special kind of bag used for encouraging hot fires. ❋ Charles Hodgson (2010)