octavo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: oc=ta=vo

CIDE DICTIONARY

octavo, n. [L. in octavo; in in + octavo, abl. of octavus. See Octave.].

 A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 81913 Webster]

octavo, a. 

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

octavo, n. (pl. -os)
1 a size of book or page given by folding a standard sheet three times to form a quire of eight leaves.
2 a book or sheet of this size.

Usage

Abbr.: 8vo.

Etymology

L in octavo in an eighth f. octavus eighth

ROGET THESAURUS

octavo

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.