quarto C2 Topic:Media & Publishing US /ˈkwɔːrtoʊ/ UK /ˈkwɔːtəʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #117987 Meanings 1 noun a book or page format made by folding a full sheet twice to create four leaves, or eight pages The printer folded each sheet twice to produce a quarto gathering. 2 noun a book produced in quarto format The archive holds the treatise in a slim seventeenth-century quarto. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a book or page format made... 4to 2 noun · a book produced in quarto... quarto volume Word family Related forms foliooctavoduodecimobook format Etymology From Latin in quarto ('in a fourth'), based on quartus ('fourth'). A printer made the format by folding a sheet into four leaves, each leaf being one quarter of the original sheet. Topics Media & Publishing External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # quarto **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈkwɔːrtoʊ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈkwɔːtəʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 117987 ## Meanings 1. a book or page format made by folding a full sheet twice to create four leaves, or eight pages 2. a book produced in quarto format ## Examples - The printer folded each sheet twice to produce a quarto gathering. - The archive holds the treatise in a slim seventeenth-century quarto. ## Synonyms - 4to - quarto volume ## Related Forms - folio - octavo - duodecimo - book format ## Etymology From Latin in quarto ('in a fourth'), based on quartus ('fourth'). A printer made the format by folding a sheet into four leaves, each leaf being one quarter of the original sheet. ## Topics - Media & Publishing markdown