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-mo

a suffix occurring in a series of compounds that describe book sizes according to the number of leaves formed by the folding of a single sheet of paper: sixteenmo.

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Nearby words

-merous, -meter, -metric, -metrics, -metry, -mo, -mobile, -mony, -morph, -morphic, -morphism

Origin of -mo

combining form extracted from duodecimo
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British Dictionary definitions for -mo

-mo

suffix forming nouns

(in bookbinding) indicating book size by specifying the number of leaves formed by folding one sheet of paper12mo, twelvemo, or duodecimo; 16mo or sixteenmo

Word Origin for -mo

abstracted from duodecimo
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