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Synonyms for octavo


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ok-tey-voh, -tah-
Phonetic Transcription : ɒkˈteɪ voʊ, -ˈtɑ-

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Définition of octavo

Origin :
  • 1580s, printer's word for sheets folded to make eight leaves, from Latin in octavo "in the eighth," ablative of octavus "eighth" (see octave). Abbreviation is 8vo.
  • As in book : noun published document
Example sentences :
  • They make an octavo volume of about three hundred and fifty pages.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
  • Of this book, published in octavo in 1893, it is impossible to speak too highly.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • Another edition of this work was published in octavo at Basle in 1740.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • A customer is likely to ask for Ivanhoe in English, octavo, bound in leather.
  • Extract from : « The Classification of Patents » by United States Patent Office
  • The catalogue filled 13 octavo volumes, and the sale occupied 216 days.
  • Extract from : « A Book for All Readers » by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
  • They will not understand a man who condenses his thoughts into an octavo.
  • Extract from : « Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters » by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • It will be an octavo of about six hundred pages, with portraits.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 » by Various
  • It is in three octavo volumes, and is entitled Svenska Fornsnger.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 » by Various
  • Octavo of 856 pages, with 437 illustrations, many in colors.
  • Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre
  • He produced an edition of his plays in six octavo volumes in 1709.
  • Extract from : « A Life of William Shakespeare » by Sidney Lee
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