Definitions for octavo

octavo oc·ta·vo

Spelling: [ok-tey-voh, -tah-]
IPA: /ɒkˈteɪ voʊ, -ˈtɑ-/

Octavo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in octavo (acootv).

Definitions for octavo

noun

  1. a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
  2. a book of this size.

adjective

  1. in octavo.

Origin of octavo

1575-85; short for New Latin in octāvō in an eighth (of a sheet)

Examples for octavo

He produced an edition of his plays in six octavo volumes in 1709.

A customer is likely to ask for Ivanhoe in English, octavo, bound in leather.

They will not understand a man who condenses his thoughts into an octavo.

octavo of 856 pages, with 437 illustrations, many in colors.

Of this book, published in octavo in 1893, it is impossible to speak too highly.

The catalogue filled 13 octavo volumes, and the sale occupied 216 days.

It is in three octavo volumes, and is entitled Svenska Fornsnger.

It will be an octavo of about six hundred pages, with portraits.

They make an octavo volume of about three hundred and fifty pages.

Another edition of this work was published in octavo at Basle in 1740.

Word Value for octavo
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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