Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Macrocolum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MACROCO'LUM or MACROCOL'LUM. Paper of the largest size, such as we might call royal. (Cic. Att. xvi. 3. xiii. 25. Plin. H. N. xiii. 24.) It is not clear whether this paper was manufactured in one large sheet, or the ordinary sheet extended by glueing several into one; nor whether the name was formed from κῶλον, a limb, or κόλλα, glue, with the adjective μακρός affixed.