compendiate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin compendiātus, perfect passive participle of compendiō (to shorten) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from compendium.

Verb

compendiate (third-person singular simple present compendiates, present participle compendiating, simple past and past participle compendiated)

  1. (obsolete) To sum or collect together.
    • 1652, William Chillingworth, Infidelity Vnmasked:
      and as it were of it self a compendium, before it could be compendiated

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

compendiate

  1. inflection of compendiare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

compendiate f pl

  1. feminine plural of compendiato

Spanish

Verb

compendiate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of compendiar combined with te