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quartos

quartos

noun KWAR-tohs Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: Latin 'quartus' (fourth), referring to a sheet folded into four leaves.

Usage Note

Quartos is a bibliographic term (borrowed into Italian from English publishing vocabulary) referring to books in quarto format — sheets folded twice to create four leaves. In Italian, the native equivalent is in-quarto or formato in quarto. It appears mainly in scholarly publishing and bibliography.

Examples

"I quartos shakespeariani sono documenti rari."

Natural Translation

The Shakespearean quartos are rare documents.

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