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octavo

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English

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octavo

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Etymology

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FromLatinoctavo.Doublet ofoctave,oitava, andochava.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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octavo (pluraloctavos)

(paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eightleaves.
(printing) A book of octavo pages.
- 1909 [1793], Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D.,The Autobiographyof Benjamin Franklin (The Harvard Classics; 1), U.S.A.: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, published1937, page 8:
  He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and inoctavo.

Synonyms

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(paper size):8º,8vo
(book size):8º,8vo,O

Translations

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paper size

Catalan:octau (ca) m
Czech:osmerka (cs) f

book size

Catalan:octau (ca) m

English paper and book sizes
Latin	folio	quarto	sexto	octavo	duodecimo	sextodecimo	octodecimo	vicesimo-quarto	trigesimo-secundo	quadragesimo-octavo	sexagesimo-quarto
ALA	F	Q		O	D	S	T		Tt	Fe	Sf
height (cm)	> 30	25-30	25-30	20-25	17.5-20	15-17.5	12.5-15	12.5-15	10-12.5	7.5-10	< 7.5
printers'	folio	quarto	sixmo	octavo	twelvemo	sixteenmo	eighteenmo	twenty-fourmo	thirty-twomo	forty-eightmo	sixty-fourmo
abbrev.	fo orf	4to	6to or6mo	8vo	12mo	16mo	18mo	24mo	32mo	48mo	64mo
abbrev.	2º	4º	6º	8º	12º	16º	18º	24º	32º	48º	64º
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Adjective

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octavo

neuter ofoctavu

French

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Pronunciation

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Audio(France (Lyon)): (file)

Adverb

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octavo

eighthly

Latin

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Numeral

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octāvō

dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofoctāvus

Spanish

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**Spanish numbers^(edit)**
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^[a],[b] ← 7	8	9 →
Cardinal:ocho Ordinal:octavo Ordinal abbreviation:8.º Multiplier:óctuple Fractional:octavo
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