单词 | quarto |
释义 | quarto[ kwawr-toh ] / ˈkwɔr toʊ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR quarto ON THESAURUS.COM noun, plural quar·tos.a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 centimeters), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbols: 4to, 4° a book of this size. adjectivebound in quarto. Origin of quartoFirst recorded in 1580–90; short for New Latin in quartō “in fourth” (quartō, ablative singular of quartus “fourth”) Words nearby quartoquarter tone, quarter-wave plate, quartet, quartic, quartile, quarto, quartz, quartz clock, quartz crystal, quartz glass, quartziferous Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for quartoBritish Dictionary definitions for quartoquarto / (ˈkwɔːtəʊ) / noun plural -tosa book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper, usually crown or demy, into four leaves or eight pages, each one quarter the size of the sheetOften written: 4to, 4° (formerly) a size of cut paper 10 in. by 8 in. (25.4 cm by 20.3 cm) Word Origin for quartoC16: from New Latin phrase in quartō in quarter Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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