-mo
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Used after numerals to indicate the number of leaves that results from folding a sheet of paper:
开：附在数字后，以表明裁一张纸的页码：
twelvemo.
十二开
语源
- From (duodeci)mo
源自 (duodeci)mo
-mo
suffix forming nouns
(in bookbinding) indicating book size by specifying the number of leaves formed by folding one sheet of paper
⇒
12mo, twelvemo, or duodecimo
⇒
16mo or sixteenmo
Origin
abstracted from duodecimo-mo
Word Origin
1
a suffix occurring in a series of compounds that describe book sizes according to the number of leaves formed by the folding of a single sheet of paper:
sixteenmo.
Origin
combining form extracted from duodecimo
-mothe final element of a series of compounds referring to book sizes by numbering the times the sheets are folded, as in 12mo or duodecimo.
-mo
noun suffix
sixteenmo
16mo
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY duodecimo
— after numerals or their names to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of papersixteenmo
16mo
-mo
suffix
- forming nouns denoting a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded表示“…（书籍）开本”：
-
twelvemo.
词源
from the final syllable of Latin ordinal numbers such as duodecimo （masculine ablative singular）.
c1716 T. Rawlinson Let. in T. Hearne Remarks &Coll. (1901) V. 178,I..would willingly know something of y r Sylloge Epistolar., whither MSs. & unpublish'd, or a 12mo of Ao 1640.
1742 in N. & Q. (1855) 2 June 419History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, &c., 12mo., in 2 vols., No. 1500, with alterations.
1776 in T. Harmer Observations Divers Passages Scripture (ed. 2) I. 484 (Advt. ),The New Testament in Greek,..2 vol. 12mo.
1801 Schedule of Presswork Prices in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) iii. 98 Twelves: Pot, such as ladies and christian ladies table part, 6mo. 35 Pica ems wide, 26 long.
1810 Scale of Prices for Compositors' Work Art. 6, in Ibid. vi. 176English and larger type, not less than 7s... English 12mo. to be paid not less than 10s. 6d.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art. of Printing 798A sheet of paper folded into twenty-four leaves, forty-eight pages, is termed twenty-fourmo.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 548/1Trigesimo-secundo, the bibliographical term for thirty-twomo; written shortly 32mo.
1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. i. iv. 34Duodecimo, sextodecimo, vicesimo-quarto, and tricesimo-secundo, but often called ‘twelvemo’, ‘sixteenmo’, ‘twenty-fourmo’, and ‘thirty-twomo’.
Ibid. ii. ii. 167Both in a 16mo and a 32mo the watermark is, however, often absent.
Ibid. 170 (heading)Twelve-mo by cutting.
1949 F. Bowers Princ. Bibliogr. Descr. v. 193Sexagesimoquarto—64° or 64mo.
1952 J. Carter ABC forBk. -Collectors 89The principal sizes, with their common abbreviations, are: Folio{ddd}Quarto{ddd}Octavo{ddd}Duodecimo (12mo, pronounced twelvemo). Sextodecimo (16mo, pronounced sixteenmo). Vicesimo-quarto (24mo, pronounced twentyfourmo). Tricesimo-secundo (32mo, pronounced thirtytwomo).
1973 Collins's Authors & Printers Dict. (ed. 11) 406/2Sixty-fourmo,..a book based on 64 leaves, 128 pages, to the basic sheet..abbr. 64mo (no point).
ORIGIN: The final syllable of terms derived from the abl. sing. masc. of Latin ordinal numerals.
-mo
\ˌmō\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: duodecimo
— after numerals or their names to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper
< sixteenmo >
< 16mo >
< eighteenmo >
< 18mo >
— after numerals or their names to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper
< sixteenmo >
< 16mo >
< eighteenmo >
< 18mo >
-mo
Suffix
- paper, printing Used to form page and book sizes.
Etymology
From Latin ending and apparent suffix of cardinal numbers.