What is the Latin word for quarto?

The usual Latin words for “quarto” are largus, parvus, quaternus; also scheda. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“quarto” in Latin

largusabundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something; bountiful, liberal, munificent; generous with, lavish of parvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportant quaternusfour each; four at a time; four (collective), fourfold schedaA strip of papyrus wood; A piece of paper

The English word quarto itself goes back to Latin quārtus.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

quarto

*forma quaternaria; *quarti ordinis forma (Ruhnken.): large, small quarto, *forma quaternaria major, minor: in quarto, quaternis: a quarto volume, *liber forma quaternaria: a quarto leaf, *folium, scheda, formae quaternariae.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for quarto?: The usual Latin words for “quarto” are largus, parvus, quaternus; also scheda. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.