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sextodecimo
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sex·to·dec·i·mo  (skst-ds-m)
n. pl. sex·to·dec·i·mos In both senses also called sixteenmo.
1. The page size of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into 16 leaves or 32 pages.
2. A book composed of sextodecimo pages.

[Latin sextdecim, ablative of sextusdecimus, one sixteenth : sextus, sixth; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots + decimus, tenth (from decem, ten; see dek in Indo-European roots).]

sextodecimo [ˌsɛkstəʊˈdɛsɪˌməʊ]
n pl -mos
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Bookbinding another word for sixteenmo
[from Latin sextusdecimus sixteenth]


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A fourth edition was printed for Tory by an unknown printer (perhaps Tory) on 8 February 1529 (use of Rome), a small octavo or 16mo, and on 20 October 1531 another octavo also printed by Tory himself (use of Rome).
 
 
 
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