Octodecimo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: oc=to=dec=i=mo

CIDE DICTIONARY

Octodecimo, a. [L. octodecim eighteen. See Octavo, Decimal, and -mo.].

 Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Octodecimo, n. 

 A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18eighteenmo.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Octodecimo, n. (pl. -os)
1 a size of book or page given by folding a standard sheet into eighteen leaves.
2 a book or sheet of this size.

Etymology

in octodecimo f. L octodecimus eighteenth

ROGET THESAURUS

Octodecimo

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.