stichometry

== English == === Etymology === From Latin stichometria, from Byzantine Greek στιχομετρία (stikhometría), from στίχος (stíkhos, “verse”) +‎ μέτρον (métron, “measurement”) +‎ -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, sticho- +‎ -metry. === Noun === stichometry (countable and uncountable, plural stichometries) The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain. The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== stichometric ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === stichometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia