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Meaning of "duodecimo" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DUODECIMO

From Latin phrase in duodecimō in twelfth, from duodecim twelve.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DUODECIMO

duodecimo  [ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪˌməʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUODECIMO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Duodecimo is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUODECIMO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Paper size

Many paper size standards conventions have existed at different times and in different countries. Today there is one widespread international ISO standard and a local standard used in North America. The paper sizes affect writing paper, stationery, cards, and some printed documents. The standards also have related sizes for envelopes.

Definition of duodecimo in the English dictionary

The definition of duodecimo in the dictionary is Also called: twelvemo. a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into twelve leaves Often written: 12mo, 12°. Other definition of duodecimo is a book of this size.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUODECIMO


Alamo
ˈæləˌməʊ
altaltissimo
ˌæltælˈtɪsɪˌməʊ
altissimo
ælˈtɪsɪˌməʊ
bravissimo
brɑːˈvɪsɪˌməʊ
centesimo
sɛnˈtɛsɪˌməʊ
dynamo
ˈdaɪnəˌməʊ
Eskimo
ˈɛskɪˌməʊ
Esquimau
ˈɛskɪˌməʊ
fortissimo
fɔːˈtɪsɪˌməʊ
generalissimo
ˌdʒɛnərəˈlɪsɪˌməʊ
Geronimo
dʒəˈrɒnɪˌməʊ
lentissimo
lɛnˈtɪsɪˌməʊ
milesimo
miːˈleɪsɪˌməʊ
millimho
ˈmɪlɪˌməʊ
pianissimo
pɪəˈnɪsɪˌməʊ
prestissimo
prɛˈstɪsɪˌməʊ
sextodecimo
ˌsɛkstəʊˈdɛsɪˌməʊ
slow-mo
ˈsləʊˌməʊ
staccatissimo
ˌstækɑːˈtɪsɪˌməʊ
ultimo
ˈʌltɪˌməʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUODECIMO

duo
Duo-Tang
duobinary
duodecennial
duodecillion
duodecimal
duodecimally
duodena
duodenal
duodenal ulcer
duodenary
duodenectomy
duodenitis
duodenum
duolog
duologue
duomo
duopolies
duopolistic
duopoly

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUODECIMO

chimo
fortississimo
in altissimo
legatissimo
limo
octodecimo
pianississimo
Piero di Cosimo
primo
proximo
sentimo
skimo
stretch limo
tempo primo

Synonyms and antonyms of duodecimo in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «duodecimo» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUODECIMO

Find out the translation of duodecimo to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of duodecimo from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «duodecimo» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

十二开
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dozavo
570 millions of speakers

English

duodecimo
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

duodecimo
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

duodecimo
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

duodecimo
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

duodécimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

duodecimo
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

in-douze
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Duodecimo
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Duodez
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

四六判
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

duodecimo
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Duodecimo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

duodecimo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

duodecimo
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Duodecimo
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duodecimo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

duodecimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

duodecimo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

duodecimo
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

duodecimo
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

duodecimo
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

duodecimo
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

duodecimo
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

duodecimo
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of duodecimo

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUODECIMO»

The term «duodecimo» is normally little used and occupies the 134.037 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUODECIMO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «duodecimo» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «duodecimo» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about duodecimo

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUODECIMO»

Discover the use of duodecimo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to duodecimo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Duodecimo, Or, The Scribbler's Progress: An Autobiography
DUODECIMO. CHAPTEE I. It was a melancholy day when my father first communicated to me the intelligence, that I was to leave the protection of the paternal escritoire, and be sent abroad to seek my fortune in the wide world, whose smiles I ...
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Typographical Antiquities Or The History of Printing in ...
Angl. - - - 1527 Duodecimo 175 Faith, Declaracyon on, &c. of the Chrysten Without Dute Duodecimo 204 Folowyng of Chryste - - - lVithout Date Duodecimo 184 Foundement of Contemplacyon - - Without Date Duodecimo 204 Genealogye of ...
Joseph Ames, William Herbert, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1816
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Typographia, Or, The Printers' Instructor: Including an ...
Cspograptiia 497 Enangelyst in S. Martyns Parysshe 1 Charvnge Cross Octavo. 30. Gouernaunce of good Helthc. Duodecimo. 31. Castle of Lone. Duodecimo. 32 . VII. Dialogues. In seynt Martyns parysshe. Duodecimo. 33. Signs of the Zodiac.
John Johnson, 1824
4
A Vocabulary: Or, Collection of Words and Phrases, which ...
In the duodecimo, he has spelled furlow with ow, contrary to the octavo, in which it is furlough ! He has, in the duodecimo, spelled bridegoom without r in the last syllable, agreeably to the quarto, but contrary to the octavo, as bridegoom, without ...
John Pickering, 1816
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A Critical Review of the Orthography of Dr. Webster's Series ...
He has, after the words slierif and tarif, inserted [slieritf] and [tariff] with 1/, in brackets; but he has not inserted the old orthography of any other word! except [ slierifl'] and [tariff] in braclze s, after the new orthography 3 He has, in the duodecimo, ...
Lyman Cobb, 1831
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The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science ...
Areskine Libri Medici in Octavo et Duodecimo, No. 372. Schelhammer, Gunther Christoph, De Genuina Febres Curandi Methodo dissertatio (Jena, 1693), Areskine Libri Medici in Quarto 12, No. 34. ——, De Auditu Liber Unus (Leiden, 1684), ...
Robert Collis, 2011
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Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn ...
3 Bibliotheca Zuylichemiana, Duodecimo 823: 'La civil Conversatione di steff. Guazzo, Ven. 1575'. on this subject, see Herman Roodenburg, The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic (Zwolle: Waanders, ...
Rudolf M. Dekker, 2013
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Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and ...
For this and other reasons one would expect the duodecimo piracies to have texts substantially less accurate than the authorized editions, but, surprisingly, this is not true. Two of the duodecimos more accurately reprint printer's copy in the ...
Jesse G. Swan, 2013
9
Bibliotheca Sussexiana: A descriptive catalogue, accompanied ...
Duodecimo. 22. Gorichem 1671. Duodecimo. 23. Dordrecht 1675. Duodecimo. 24. • Staaten General, Dordrecht 1682. Folio. 2 vols. 25 Dordrecht 1683. Duodecimo. 26. Amsterdam 1684. Quarto. 27- Amsterdam 1694. Duodecimo. 28.
Augustus Frederick (Duke of Sussex), Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, 1839
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The Works of C. Churchill
Louisa; or, Virtue in Dish'ess, duodecimo. Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, folio. Modern Practice in Exchequer, octavo. Middleton's Life os Cicero. 3 vol. octavo. Milton's Paradise Regained, duodecimo. New Manual of Devotions, duodecimo.
Charles Churchill, 1774

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUODECIMO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term duodecimo is used in the context of the following news items.
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21 things you never knew about sheep
Folding a sheet of sheep-skin parchment four times, for example, would result in a "a duodecimo" – the equivalent of an average-size ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
2
Salgado en Japón para Takahiro Aoh
... este mexicano fracaso en la primera defensa de su titulo cuando fue vencido por KOT en el duodecimo round por el invicto japones Takashi ... «Notifight.com, Oct 14»
3
MFA vs. POC
I could write pages on the unbearable too-whiteness of my workshop—I could write folio, octavo and duodecimo on its terrible whiteness—but ... «New Yorker, May 14»
4
Book News: Newly Found Stories By Celebrated Sci-Fi Author To Be …
He adds, "I could write pages on the unbearable too-whiteness of my workshop — I could write folio, octavo and duodecimo on its terrible ... «NPR, May 14»
5
The Press stands firm against the French Revolution and Napoleon
The published volume appears to be a particular form of duodecimo (strictly 12o in 6s, half-sheet imposition; the paper carried a watermarked ... «OUPblog, Feb 14»
6
Highlights of the ANZAAB Sydney Rare Book Fair, 8-10 November …
Tall narrow duodecimo by dimensions, colour-illustrated card wrappers in the shape of a parrot, a little marking. Sydney, John Sands ... «ILAB, Oct 13»
7
What, exactly, is a 'red line'?
George Orwell, in A Clergyman's Daughter, invented a Hundred Page History of Britain, a 'nasty little duodecimo book' of 1888, which declared ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 13»
8
Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - The Female Marine and …
The story was published in Boston in 1841 as a 36 page pamphlet, which itself was a tease for a projected “duodecimo volume of 250 pages.” The longer ... «ILAB, Oct 12»
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Mark Boswell Sues Eric Jackson and The Panama News
The latest filing was in the: Juzgado Duodecimo de Circuito Penal Del Primer Circuito Judicial De Panama, veintiseis (26) de Septiembre de ... «PR Web, Mar 12»
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Book Sizes and Taking Advantage of Bald Men
... art (behind the shades of Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson howling in rage) you will see that the odd bald man is holding a 12mo (duodecimo) volume. «ILAB, Sep 11»

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