"folos" meaning in Romanian

See folos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /foˈlos/
Rhymes: -os Etymology: Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|el|όφελος}} Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos) Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|foloase}} folos n (plural foloase) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|gpd=foloaselor|gpi=foloase|gsd=folosului|gsi=folos|n=|npd=foloasele|npi=foloase|nsd=folosul|nsi=folos|vp=foloaselor|vs=folosule}} Forms: foloase [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], folos [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], folosul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], foloase [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], foloasele [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], folos [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], folosului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], foloase [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], foloaselor [dative, definite, genitive, plural], folosule [singular, vocative], foloaselor [plural, vocative], фолос [alternative], fălos [alternative]
  1. use (usefulness) Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-folos-ro-noun-7hvitMY7 Categories (other): Romanian terms with collocations
  2. benefit, gain Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-folos-ro-noun-0rVnxGt0 Categories (other): Romanian terms with collocations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 90 Disambiguation of Romanian entries with incorrect language header: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: folosi, muncă în folosul comunității

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "folosi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "muncă în folosul comunității"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "el",
        "3": "όφελος"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloasele",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloaselor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloaselor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "фолос",
      "roman": "folos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fălos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n",
        "2": "foloase"
      },
      "expansion": "folos n (plural foloase)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "fo",
        "los"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "foloaselor",
        "gpi": "foloase",
        "gsd": "folosului",
        "gsi": "folos",
        "n": "",
        "npd": "foloasele",
        "npi": "foloase",
        "nsd": "folosul",
        "nsi": "folos",
        "vp": "foloaselor",
        "vs": "folosule"
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Romanian terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
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              3,
              6
            ],
            [
              8,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "english": "of use, useful",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "de folos",
          "translation": "of use, useful",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              5,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ],
            [
              11,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "english": "of no use, useless",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "fără folos",
          "translation": "of no use, useless",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              12,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "This too has its use.",
          "text": "Și asta are folosul său.",
          "translation": "This too has its use.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "use (usefulness)"
      ],
      "id": "en-folos-ro-noun-7hvitMY7",
      "links": [
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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              11,
              16
            ],
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              17,
              24
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to benefit off…",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "a trage un folos/foloase din…/de pe urma…",
          "translation": "to benefit off…",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              3,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "english": "in/to someone’s benefit",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "în folosul cuiva",
          "translation": "in/to someone’s benefit",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              3,
              8
            ],
            [
              9,
              14
            ],
            [
              9,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
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              13,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to one’s own benefit",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "în folos/folosul personal",
          "translation": "to one’s own benefit",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "what good is it that…?",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "ce folos că…?",
          "translation": "what good is it that…?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              52,
              57
            ],
            [
              74,
              79
            ],
            [
              74,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              71
            ],
            [
              93,
              100
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The persons specified in paragraph (2) cannot use, to their own benefit or to someone else’s benefit, directly or indirectly, information such as that specified in paragraph (1) […]",
          "ref": "2004 November 24, Government Decision 2105/2004, in Monitorul Oficial, year 172, number 1167, Bucharest, published 9 December 2004, →ISSN, page 6:",
          "text": "Persoanele prevăzute la alin. (2) nu pot utiliza în folos personal sau în folosul altuia, direct ori indirect, informații de natura celor prevăzute la alin. (1)[…]",
          "translation": "The persons specified in paragraph (2) cannot use, to their own benefit or to someone else’s benefit, directly or indirectly, information such as that specified in paragraph (1) […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "benefit, gain"
      ],
      "id": "en-folos-ro-noun-0rVnxGt0",
      "links": [
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/foˈlos/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-os"
    }
  ],
  "word": "folos"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Romanian/os",
    "Rhymes:Romanian/os/2 syllables",
    "Romanian countable nouns",
    "Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Romanian lemmas",
    "Romanian neuter nouns",
    "Romanian nouns",
    "Romanian terms borrowed from Greek",
    "Romanian terms derived from Greek"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "folosi"
    },
    {
      "word": "muncă în folosul comunității"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "el",
        "3": "όφελος"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Greek όφελος (ófelos).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ro-noun-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosul",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloasele",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosului",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloase",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloaselor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "folosule",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foloaselor",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "фолос",
      "roman": "folos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fălos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n",
        "2": "foloase"
      },
      "expansion": "folos n (plural foloase)",
      "name": "ro-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "fo",
        "los"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "gpd": "foloaselor",
        "gpi": "foloase",
        "gsd": "folosului",
        "gsi": "folos",
        "n": "",
        "npd": "foloasele",
        "npi": "foloase",
        "nsd": "folosul",
        "nsi": "folos",
        "vp": "foloaselor",
        "vs": "folosule"
      },
      "name": "ro-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Romanian",
  "lang_code": "ro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Romanian terms with collocations",
        "Romanian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              6
            ],
            [
              8,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "english": "of use, useful",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "de folos",
          "translation": "of use, useful",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              5,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ],
            [
              11,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "english": "of no use, useless",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "fără folos",
          "translation": "of no use, useless",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              12,
              19
            ]
          ],
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            [
              17,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "This too has its use.",
          "text": "Și asta are folosul său.",
          "translation": "This too has its use.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "use (usefulness)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Romanian terms with collocations",
        "Romanian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
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              11,
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            ],
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              17,
              24
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to benefit off…",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "a trage un folos/foloase din…/de pe urma…",
          "translation": "to benefit off…",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "english": "in/to someone’s benefit",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "în folosul cuiva",
          "translation": "in/to someone’s benefit",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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            [
              3,
              8
            ],
            [
              9,
              14
            ],
            [
              9,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to one’s own benefit",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "în folos/folosul personal",
          "translation": "to one’s own benefit",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "what good is it that…?",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "ce folos că…?",
          "translation": "what good is it that…?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              52,
              57
            ],
            [
              74,
              79
            ],
            [
              74,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              71
            ],
            [
              93,
              100
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The persons specified in paragraph (2) cannot use, to their own benefit or to someone else’s benefit, directly or indirectly, information such as that specified in paragraph (1) […]",
          "ref": "2004 November 24, Government Decision 2105/2004, in Monitorul Oficial, year 172, number 1167, Bucharest, published 9 December 2004, →ISSN, page 6:",
          "text": "Persoanele prevăzute la alin. (2) nu pot utiliza în folos personal sau în folosul altuia, direct ori indirect, informații de natura celor prevăzute la alin. (1)[…]",
          "translation": "The persons specified in paragraph (2) cannot use, to their own benefit or to someone else’s benefit, directly or indirectly, information such as that specified in paragraph (1) […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "benefit, gain"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/foˈlos/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-os"
    }
  ],
  "word": "folos"
}

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