OCTODECIMO Definition & Meaning

octodecimo

[ ok-tuh-des-uh-moh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural octodecimos

a book size of about 4 × 6 1/4 inches (10 × 16 centimeters), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 18 leaves or 36 pages. : 18mo, 18°
a book of this size.

adjective

in octodecimo.

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noun

bookbinding another word for eighteenmo

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of octodecimo¹

First recorded in 1855–60; short for New Latin in octōdecimō “in an eighteenth (of a sheet)”

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of octodecimo¹

C18: from New Latin phrase in octodecimo in an eighteenth (of a whole sheet)

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Octodecimo, ok-tō-des′i-mō, adj. having eighteen leaves to the sheet, contracted 18mo.—adj.

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Other sizes occasionally used are called “sixteenmo” or “sextodecimo,” “eighteenmo” or “octodecimo,” etc.

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The whole of this transaction was, if I may so speak, in the naughty vanity of my heart, a sort of octodecimo illustration of the "VENI, VIDI, VICI" of a certain illustrious character of antiquity.

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"It is from your Father in heaven,—behold it!" said he, in a dramatic accent, and pulling out of his breast-pocket a small octodecimo Bible.

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