-mosuffix

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -mō.

Etymology: < classical Latin -mō, ablative of -mus , suffix seen in certain ordinal numbers, as prīmus primus adj.Originally forming the last part of graphic abbreviations (reflecting a common post-classical Latin mode of abbreviation for ordinal numerals, seen also in dates) of which the first part is a digital numeral; examples are attested in English contexts from the early 18th cent., e.g.c1716 T. Rawlinson Let. in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 178 I..would willingly know something of y^r Sylloge Epistolar., whither MSs. & unpublish'd, or a 12^mo of A^o 1640.1801 Schedule of Presswork Prices in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) iii. 98 Twelves: Pot, such as ladies and christian ladies table part, 6mo. 35 Pica ems wide, 26 long.1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 548/1 Trigesimo-secundo, the bibliographical term for thirty-twomo; written shortly 32mo.1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. ii. ii. 167 Both in a 16mo and a 32mo the watermark is, however, often absent.1949 F. Bowers Princ. Bibliogr. Descr. v. 193 Sexagesimoquarto—64^oor 64mo. Compare also the earlier use of ⁰:1626 S. Ward Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. c. 344 A Book of a large 16⁰. Forms in which the numerical digits are replaced by English numerals and -mo is suffixal are attested from the early 19th cent. Compare:1847 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Feb. 87/2 Then was let in a deluge of democratic shapes and prices. Duodecimo, post-octavo, eighteenmo, sixteenmo, and a hundred other vos and mos, bewildered the aged members of the profession.

Forming nouns representing the spoken equivalents of abbreviations used to denote a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded, in which the first element is an English numeral, as twelvemo n., sixteenmo n., eighteenmo n., twentyfourmo n., thirtytwomo n., etc.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	-mo
释义	-mosuffix Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -mō. Etymology: < classical Latin -mō, ablative of -mus , suffix seen in certain ordinal numbers, as prīmus primus adj.Originally forming the last part of graphic abbreviations (reflecting a common post-classical Latin mode of abbreviation for ordinal numerals, seen also in dates) of which the first part is a digital numeral; examples are attested in English contexts from the early 18th cent., e.g.c1716 T. Rawlinson Let. in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 178 I..would willingly know something of y^r Sylloge Epistolar., whither MSs. & unpublish'd, or a 12^mo of A^o 1640.1801 Schedule of Presswork Prices in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) iii. 98 Twelves: Pot, such as ladies and christian ladies table part, 6mo. 35 Pica ems wide, 26 long.1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 548/1 Trigesimo-secundo, the bibliographical term for thirty-twomo; written shortly 32mo.1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. ii. ii. 167 Both in a 16mo and a 32mo the watermark is, however, often absent.1949 F. Bowers Princ. Bibliogr. Descr. v. 193 Sexagesimoquarto—64^oor 64mo. Compare also the earlier use of ⁰:1626 S. Ward Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. c. 344 A Book of a large 16⁰. Forms in which the numerical digits are replaced by English numerals and -mo is suffixal are attested from the early 19th cent. Compare:1847 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Feb. 87/2 Then was let in a deluge of democratic shapes and prices. Duodecimo, post-octavo, eighteenmo, sixteenmo, and a hundred other vos and mos, bewildered the aged members of the profession. Forming nouns representing the spoken equivalents of abbreviations used to denote a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded, in which the first element is an English numeral, as twelvemo n., sixteenmo n., eighteenmo n., twentyfourmo n., thirtytwomo n., etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < suffix
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