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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
quarto
 
SYLLABICATION:quar·to
PRONUNCIATION:  kwôrt
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. quar·tos
1. The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves. 2. A book composed of pages of this size.
ETYMOLOGY:Short for Middle English (in) quarto, (in) the fourth part (of a sheet), from Medieval Latin (in) qurt, from Latin, ablative of qurtus, fourth. See kwetwer- in Appendix I.
 
 
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