This week’s theme
Words related to books

This week’s words
colophon
recto
bibliogony
codex
opisthograph

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Words to describe people

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PRONUNCIATION:

(o-PIS-thuh-graf)

MEANING:

noun: A text written on both front and back (of some parchment, papyrus, stone, etc.).

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek opistho- (back) + -graph (writing). Earliest documented use: 1623.

USAGE:

“There are another twenty Qumran opisthographs with different compositions on the verso and recto.”
Joan E. Taylor; The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea; Oxford University Press; 2012.

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