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Word: Octavo
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Latin in octavo ‘in an eighth’, from octavus ‘eighth’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɒkˈteɪvəʊ
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɒkˈtɑːvəʊ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a size of book page that results from folding each printed sheet into eight leaves (sixteen pages)
Short Definition:size of book page that results from folding each printed sheet into eight leaves
Examples:- foolscap octavo
- three octavo volumes
Variant Forms:
- 8vo
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