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quar⋅to

[kwawr-toh] noun, plural -tos, adjective
–noun
1. a book size of about 9 1/2 × 12 in. (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°
2. a book of this size.
–adjective
3. bound in quarto.

Origin:
1580–90; short for NL in quartō in fourth (quartō, abl. sing. of quartus fourth )
quar·to   (kwôr'tō)   
n.   pl. quar·tos
  1. The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves.
  2. A book composed of pages of this size.

[Short for Middle English (in) quarto, (in) the fourth part (of a sheet), from Medieval Latin (in) quārtō, from Latin, ablative of quārtus, fourth; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

Quarto

Quar"to\, a. [L. in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: cf. F. (in) quarto. See Quart.] Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

Quarto

Quar"to\, n.; pl. Quartos. Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Language Translation for : quarto
Spanish: cuarto,
German: das Zimmer,
Japanese: 貸間

quarto 
1475, from M.L. in quarto "in the fourth (part of a sheet of paper)," from quarto, abl. sing. of L. quartus "fourth" (see quart).
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