Bifolo
English translation: bifolium
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| 07:12 Oct 5, 2015 |
| Italian to English translations [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Bookbinding | |||||||
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| 4 | bifolium (s.), bifolia (p.) |
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15 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| bifolio bifolium Explanation: The singular of the term you are asking for is bifolio, not bifolo. 'We are in the realm of bookbinding, specifically the folding and stitching of sheets of vellum, parchment or paper into a grouping called a quire. A set of four sheets was anciently standard, folded once to make eight leaves or sixteen pages. This was a quaternion. If instead you folded just one sheet of paper to make two leaves, it was called a bifolium; two sheets made four leaves and eight pages and was termed a binion; a ternion was created from three sheets. All these names came from Latin numbers.' http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-qui5.htm 'A gathering made of a single folded sheet (i.e. 2 leaves, 4 sides) is a "bifolium" (plural "bifolia")' http://content.wow.com/wiki/Gathering_(bookbinding) |
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33 mins confidence:
bifolium (s.), bifolia (p.) Explanation: I believe this might be a spelling variant or even an error of "bifoglio". In Italian and English, "a bifolium (often wrongly called a "bifolio", "bi-folio", or even "bifold") is a single sheet folded in half to make two leaves. The plural is "bifolia", not "bifolios". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 34 mins (2015-10-05 07:47:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oops, Barbara! We were right on top of each other. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.wilsey.net/glossary.html Reference: http://users.unimi.it/dagosti/Manoscritto.pdf |
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