sextodecimo means A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into sixteenths (3.25"–5" x 5"–6.25"). It carries an Arena rating of 1255, earned across 12 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sextodecimo ranks #2,779 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
Why “sextodecimo” is a great word
A book size, typically 4 to 6 inches in height, resulting from folding a single sheet of paper to form sixteen leaves (thirty-two pages). From the Latin ablative singular form *sextōdecimō*, meaning 'in the sixteenth', from *sextus decimus* ('sixteenth'), from *sextus* ('sixth') and *decimus* ('tenth'); first recorded in English use 1680–90. Unlike folio, a stately, once-folded sheet yielding two imposing leaves, or octavo, a thrice-folded sheet making eight moderate leaves, sextodecimo is the work of four cunning folds, a feat of paper engineering that yields a diminutive, pocketable tome. It is the prayer book pressed into a gloved hand, the slim volume of sonnets slipped into a coat pocket, the field guide that fits in the palm while the birds wheel overhead—a monument to the human urge to compress vast thought into the smallest, most portable of forms, where smallness becomes not deficiency but intimacy.
Etymology
From Latin ablative of sextusdecimus (“sixteenth”).
noun
- A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into sixteenths (3.25"–5" x 5"–6.25").
- A book consisting of pages of that size.
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