compendium
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From the Latin compendium ("that which is weighed together”; “a sparing”, “a saving”, “an abbreviation"), from com- ("with") + pendō ("I weigh").
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia compendium (plural compendiums or compendia)
- A short, complete summary; an abstract.
- A list or collection of various items.
- 2008, Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
- 2008, Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
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short, complete summary
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Latin compendium
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm/
[edit] Noun
compendium m (plural compendiums)
- compendium, abstract.
- Un compendium de logique, de philosophie.
- vitrine showing didactic material.
- L’ameublement de l’École traditionnelle est […] celui d’un auditorium scriptorium : chaire surélevée, unique tableau à l’usage exclusif de l’exposé magistral […], bancs pupitres pour enfants assis écrivant ou lisant […] meuble bibliothèque et compendium scientifique soigneusement fermés, à l’abri de la poussière et des mains indiscrètes. (Célestin Freinet, L’École moderne française, 1946)
[edit] Latin
[edit] Etymology
Literally that which is weighed together
[edit] Noun
compendium (genitive compendiī); n, second declension
- saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
- shortening, abbreviating; abridgement