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quarto
[ kwawr-toh ]
noun
, plural quar·tos.
- a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. : 4to, 4°
- a book of this size.
adjective
- bound in quarto.
quarto
/ ˈkwɔːtəʊ /
noun
- a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper, usually crown or demy, into four leaves or eight pages, each one quarter the size of the sheet Often written4to4°
- (formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quarto1
First recorded in 1580–90; short for New Latin in quartō “in fourth” ( quartō, ablative singular of quartus “fourth”)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quarto1
C16: from New Latin phrase in quartō in quarter
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Example Sentences
John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.
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In about a fortnight I again launch into the World in the shape of a quarto Volume.
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It was a piece of patterned stuff about the size of the quarto page, to which it was fastened by an old-fashioned pin.
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One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence.
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The remarkable thing is, as regards Hamlet, that they almost all occur in passages not present in the First Quarto.
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