Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The page size of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into 16 leaves or 32 pages.
- noun A book composed of sextodecimo pages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheet of paper when regularly folded in 16 leaves of equal size; also, a pamphlet or book made up of folded sheets of 16 leaves: usually indicated thus, 16 mo or 16° (commonly read sixteenmo). Also used adjectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16°.
- adjective Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages.
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
sixteenths (3.25"-5" x 5"-6.25"). - noun printing A book consisting of pages of that size.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sextodecimo.
Examples
-
Some think that we are too effete or somehow trying to be elite – but what if, instead of 16mo, 24mo, and 32mo we wrote sextodecimo, vigesimoquarto, and trigesimosecundo?
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
-
Some think that we are too effete or somehow trying to be elite – but what if, instead of 16mo, 24mo, and 32mo we wrote sextodecimo, vigesimoquarto, and trigesimosecundo?
-
This series starts out bravely in Latin (quarto, octavo), but begins to falter a bit when it gets to 16mo (sextodecimo/sixteenmo), & finally tails off into English.
On twoth DC 2008
-
Sextodecimo, vellum binding, Batchelor Flower (2) paper, Golden type; 525 paper copies, 21 on vellum This was the only sextodecimo bound in vellum.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows robinmkatz 2010
-
This was the fi rst Kelmscott book printed in sextodecimo format and the four-line initial appeared in this title for the fi rst time.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows robinmkatz 2010
reesetee commented on the word sextodecimo
Usually pronounced "sixteenmo" and written as 16mo. In rare/antique book trade, a small-format book made from printed sheets folded four times to give 16 leaves (32 pages). Also used as a more general term to refer to very small (but not miniature books.
February 20, 2007