| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sextodecimo |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sex·to·dec·i·mo |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k st -ds  -m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. sex·to·dec·i·mos
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. In both senses also called sixteenmo. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin sextdecim, ablative of sextusdecimus, one sixteenth : sextus, sixth; see s(w)eks in Appendix I + decimus, tenth (from decem, ten; see dek in Appendix I).
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