quarto (redirected from quartos)

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 [ˈkwɔːtəʊ]

n pl -tos

1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) 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 written 4to 4°

2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm)

[from New Latin phrase in quartō 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 [ˈkwɔːtəʊ]

A. ADJ [volume] → en cuarto; [paper] → tamaño m holandesa

B. N → libro m en cuarto

quarto [ˈkwɔː^rtəʊ]

adj [edition, volume, paper] → in-quarto inv

n → in-quarto m inv

quarto

n (Typ) → Quart(format) nt

attr paper, volume → in Quart

quarto [ˈkwɔːtəʊ] adj → in quarto