-mo

-mo
[məʊ]
suffix forming nouns denoting a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded: twelvemo.
Origin
from the final syllable of L. ordinal numbers such as duodecimo (masculine ablative singular).

English new terms dictionary. 2014.

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