Definitions for quartos

quartos quar·to

Spelling: [kwawr-toh]
IPA: /ˈkwɔr toʊ/

Quartos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in quartos (aoqrstu).

Definitions for quartos

noun

  1. a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
  2. a book of this size.

adjective

  1. bound in quarto.

Origin of quartos

1580-90; short for New Latin in quartō in fourth (quartō, ablative singular of quartus fourth)

Examples for quartos

His "Landscape Lyrics" appeared in 1839, in a quarto volume.

It occupied four sheets of quarto paper, closely type-written.

The quarto was genuine in every respect, but it was a facsimile!

The Doctor sighed, and folded the sermon, and laid the quarto Cruden on it.

The sonnets were piratically published in a quarto volume in 1609.

He also printed a Mohawk Prayer-book in quarto; this was issued in 1715.

This was republished in two quarto volumes at Frankfort in 1625.

Abridged by a Gentleman of Boston, from the London quarto edition.

At the Fairfax Murray sale in 1918 the quarto Lyons edition made £130.

Both are in quarto, and are biographical as well as bibliographical.

Word Value for quartos
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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