PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

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PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf) , a

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

for keeping papers, documents, prints, maps, &c., usually a

leather

LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch
leer
- LEER
or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

book-cover with a flexible back. As the official documents of a state department are in the hands of the minister of that department, the word " port-folio " is frequently used figuratively of the

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

itself, particularly on the

continent

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

of Europe, where the "

portfolio

PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

" is the symbol of

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

, as, in

English

ENGLISH

usage, the " seals " are for the secretaryships of state. The phrase " minister without port-folio " is applied to a member of a

ministry

MINISTRY

to whom no

special

SPECIAL

department is assigned.

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