| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| octodecimo |
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| SYLLABICATION: | oc·to·dec·i·mo |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k t -d s -m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. oc·to·dec·i·mos
1. The page size, 4 by 61/2 inches, of a book composed of printer's sheets folded into 18 leaves or 36 pages. 2. A book composed of octodecimo pages. In both senses also called eighteenmo. | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin (in) octdecim, (in) an eighteenth, ablative sing. of octdecimus, eighteenth, from Latin octdecim, eighteen : oct, eight; see okt(u) in Appendix I + decem, ten; see dek in Appendix I.
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