duodecimo

American  

[doo-uh-des-uh-moh, dyoo-] / ˌdu əˈdɛs əˌmoʊ, ˌdyu- /

noun

plural

duodecimos

1. Also called twelvemo.  a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 centimeters), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. 12 mo, 12°

2. a book of this size.

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adjective

1. in duodecimo; twelvemo.

duodecimo British  

/ ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪˌməʊ /

noun

1. Also called: twelvemo.  Often written: 12mo.   12°.  a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into twelve leaves

2. a book of this size

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Etymology

Origin of duodecimo

First recorded in 1650–60; short for Latin in duodecimō “in twelfth”

Example Sentences

This, the first edition, is of rare occurrence; that in the British Museum being a dirty duodecimo chap book.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The former can all be included in a thin duodecimo volume, and has been so printed; the latter, still unfinished, fills several ponderous octavo volumes.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

This is the title of the second and enlarged edition, which appeared in 1642 in a small duodecimo volume, printed at Oxford, by Henry Hall.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

One volume, duodecimo, illustrated with steel plates, and bound in morocco, gilt.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Quarto and octavo editions of the New Testament alone were published in the same year, 1539, as the original edition, and in the following year, 1540, the New Testament in duodecimo.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various