quarto

noun

/ˈkwɔːtəʊ/

/ˈkwɔːrtəʊ/

(plural quartos)

(specialist)

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[uncountable] a size of page made by folding a standard sheet of paper twice to make eight pages四开（标准印张的四分之一大小）
[countable] a book with pages in quarto size四开本图书
- an early quarto edition of Shakespeare’s plays莎士比亚戏剧的早期四开本

Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin (in) quarto ‘(in) the fourth (of a sheet)’, ablative of quartus ‘fourth’.