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DUODECIMO

Traducere în limba română

duodecimo substantiv

1. (poligr.) duodecimo, fasciculă cu douăsprezece file, 12.

2. persoană sau lucru de măsură mică / de proporţii reduse / neînsemnat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Miss Morland has been talking of nothing more dreadful than a new publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecimo volumes, two hundred and seventy-six pages in each, with a frontispiece to the first, of two tombstones and a lantern—do you understand?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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