quarto

quar·to  (kwôrt)

n. pl. quar·tos

1. The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves.

2. A book composed of pages of this size.

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[Short for Middle English (in) quarto, (in) the fourth part (of a sheet), from Medieval Latin (in) qurt, from Latin, ablative of qurtus, fourth; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

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quarto

Noun

pl -tos a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into four leaves or eight pages [New Latin in quarto in quarter]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

quarto - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves 4to size - the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe"

Translations

quarto [ˈkwɔːtəu] n → tamaño holandés

adj → de tamaño holandés

quarto [ˈkwɔːtəu] adj, n → in-quarto m inv

quarto [ˈkwɔːtəu] n (size of paper) → Quartformat nt;

(book) → im Quartformat

quarto [ˈkwɔːtəu] adj, n → in quarto (m) inv