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語源

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkwɔː.təʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkwɔɹ.toʊ/

名詞

quarto (countable and uncountable, plural quartos)

1. (paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
   1. (UK) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
2. (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
   • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:

     Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.

同意語

• (paper size): 4to, 4º
• (book size): Q

関連する語

参考

• foolscap

アナグラム

• Quatro, quatro

参照

• “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quarto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quarto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.