Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The page size, 4 by 6 1/2 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into 18 leaves or 36 pages.
- n. A book composed of octodecimo pages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as eighteenmo. Abbreviated 18mo.
Wiktionary
- n. paper, printing A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into eighteenths (3.5"-4.5" x 4.9"-5.9").
- n. printing A book consisting of pages of that size.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having eighteen leaves to a sheet
- n. A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18°, and called
eighteenmo .
Etymologies
- From Latin ablative of octusdecimus ("eighteenth") (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin (in) octōdecimō, (in) an eighteenth, ablative sing. of octōdecimus, eighteenth, from Latin octōdecim, eighteen : octō, eight; see oktō(u) in Indo-European roots + decem, ten; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is from your Father in heaven, -- behold it!" said he, in a dramatic accent, and pulling out of his breast-pocket a small octodecimo Bible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘octodecimo’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Ooh! I'm going to list arsenal. Feb 20, 2007
reesetee It's not significant to a whole lot of people, c_b. But it *is* a damn fun word to have in one's arsenal. Feb 20, 2007
chained_bear Cool word! I'm not going to list it myself, though, because it's not that significant to me. ;) Just you wait until I have a list it will fit on, like 10-letter words that begin and end with the same letter. Or something like that. Feb 20, 2007
reesetee A book composed of sheets folded into 18 leaves (36 pages), usually called 18mo. Page size is about 4 by 6 1/2 inches. Feb 20, 2007