compendium

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Etymology

From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“I weigh”).

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Noun

compendium (plural compendiums or compendia)

  1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  2. 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.
    1. A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
    2. (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.

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French

Etymology

From Latin compendium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm/, /kɔ̃.pɑ̃.djɔm/
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Noun

compendium m (plural compendiums)

  1. compendium, abstract
    Un compendium de logique, de philosophie.
    A compendium of logic and philosophy
  2. 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.
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    (Célestin Freinet, L’École moderne française, 1946)

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Latin

Etymology

con- (“with”) +‎ pendō (“I weigh”) +‎ -ium, literally that which is weighed together.

Pronunciation

Noun

compendium n (genitive compendiī or compendī); second declension

  1. saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
  2. shortening, abbreviating; abridgement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative compendium compendia
Genitive compendiī
compendī1 		compendiōrum
Dative compendiō compendiīs
Accusative compendium compendia
Ablative compendiō compendiīs
Vocative compendium compendia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants of compendium

References

  • “compendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “compendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • compendium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • compendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

compendium n (plural compendiumuri)

  1. Alternative form of compendiu

Declension

Declension of compendium
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) compendium compendiumul (niște) compendiumuri compendiumurile
genitive/dative (unui) compendium compendiumului (unor) compendiumuri compendiumurilor
vocative compendiumule compendiumurilor
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