Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The page size, 4 by 6.5 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into 18 leaves or 36 pages.
- noun A book composed of octodecimo pages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
eighteenmo . Abbreviated 18mo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having eighteen leaves to a sheet
- noun A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18°, and called
eighteenmo .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paper, printing A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into
eighteenths (3.5"-4.5" x 4.9"-5.9"). - noun printing A book consisting of pages of that size.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin (in) octōdecimō, (in) an eighteenth, ablative sing. of octōdecimus, eighteenth, from Latin octōdecim, eighteen : octō, eight; see oktō(u) in Indo-European roots + decem, ten; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.]
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From Latin ablative of octusdecimus ("eighteenth")
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Examples
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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.
reesetee commented on the word octodecimo
A book composed of sheets folded into 18 leaves (36 pages), usually called 18mo. Page size is about 4 by 6 1/2 inches.
February 21, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word octodecimo
Cool word! I'm not going to list it myself, though, because it's not that significant to me. ;) Just you wait until I have a list it will fit on, like 10-letter words that begin and end with the same letter. Or something like that.
February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word octodecimo
It's not significant to a whole lot of people, c_b. But it *is* a damn fun word to have in one's arsenal.
February 21, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word octodecimo
Ooh! I'm going to list arsenal.
February 21, 2007