Quarto

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quarto \Quar"to\, a. [L. in quarto in fourth, from quartus the
     fourth: cf. F. (in) quarto. See {Quart}.]
     Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a
     quarto.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quarto \Quar"to\, n.; pl. {Quartos}.
     Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of
     printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a
     square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quarto
       n : the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet
           of paper twice to form four leaves [syn: {4to}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarto":
     crown, duodecimo, eighteenmo, farthing, folio, fourth, fourth part,
     imperial, medium, octavo, octodecimo, one-fourth, quart, quarter,
     quartern, royal, sextodecimo, sixteenmo, super, twelvemo,
     twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bits