sextern

 [sek-stern]  

sex·tern

   [sek-stern]
noun Bookbinding.
six gathered sheets folded in two for binding together.
Origin:
1880–85; < Medieval Latin sexternum, equivalent to Latin sex six + -ternum, as in Vulgar Latin *quaternum (see quire1)
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