sex·to·dec·i·mo (s k st -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 sext decim, 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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