Duodecimo Definition

do͝oə-dĕsə-mō, dyo͝o-
duodecimos
noun
A page size (about 5 by 712 in),112 of a printer's sheet.
Webster's New World
A book with pages of this size.
Webster's New World
adjective
With pages of this size.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Duodecimo

Noun

Singular:
duodecimo
Plural:
duodecimos

Origin of Duodecimo

  • Latin (in) duodecimō (in) a twelfth ablative of duodecimus twelfth duodecimal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin ablative of duodecimus (“twelfth”) (from duodecim 'twelve', from duo 'two' + decem 'ten')

    From Wiktionary

Duodecimo Sentence Examples

  • In 1617 Napier published his Rabdologia, 4 a duodecimo of one hundred and fifty-four pages; there is prefixed to it as preface a dedicatory epistle to the high chancellor of Scotland.

  • This work was a commission from Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, and was originally intended to have been condensed into two or three duodecimo volumes.

  • Quarto and octavo editions of the New Testament alone were published in the same year, 1539, as the original edition, and in the following year, 1540, the New Testament in duodecimo.

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Words Starting With

DDUDUO

Words Ending With

OMOIMO

Unscrambles

duodecimo

Words Starting With D and Ending With O

Starts With D & Ends With OStarts With DU & Ends With OStarts With D & Ends With MO

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With D9 Letter Words Ending With O