quarto
noun /ˈkwɔːtəʊ/
/ˈkwɔːrtəʊ/
(plural quartos)
(specialist)- [uncountable] a size of page made by folding a standard sheet of paper twice to make eight pages
- [countable] a book with pages in quarto size
- an early quarto edition of Shakespeare’s plays
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin (in) quarto ‘(in) the fourth (of a sheet)’, ablative of quartus ‘fourth’.