[DCRM-L] 48mo?

[Deborah J. Leslie]

I think the ending must reflect how people pronounce it. For example, we say 'octavo', so it's written as 8vo. But we say 'forty-eight' instead of 'quadragesimo octavo', making the written form '48mo'.

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16mo (sexto decimo), 18vo (decimo octavo), 24to (vicesimo quarto), 32o (trigesimo secundo), 64to  (sexagesimo quarto)

these would be the correct forms if you are actually following the Latin.

It seems, though, that "mo" has taken on a life of its own in bibliography, whereby it is shorthand for something like "this format". So if that is the case, 48mo would be "correct" even though it does not represent what the Latin would be.

Jenny



> 16to, 18vo, 24to, 32o, 64to?
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> Or 48vo?
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