sextodecimo

[sek-stoh-des-uh-moh]Printing.

noun, plural sex·to·dec·i·mos.

sixteenmo(def 1).

adjective

sixteenmo(def 3).

Origin of sextodecimo

1680–90; < Latin sextōdecimō, ablative singular of sextusdecimus sixteenth

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Examples from the Web for sextodecimo

Historical Examples of sextodecimo

Other sizes occasionally used are called “sixteenmo” or “sextodecimo,” “eighteenmo” or “octodecimo,” etc.
The Story of Books
Gertrude Burford Rawlings

British Dictionary definitions for sextodecimo

sextodecimo

noun plural -mos

bookbinding another word for sixteenmo

Word Origin for sextodecimo

C17: from Latin sextusdecimus sixteenth

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