enciclopédia

Learned borrowing from New Latin encyclopaedia (“general education”), a univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā), from ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios) +‎ παιδείᾱ (paideíā).

• Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒiɐ, -ɛdjɐ
• Hyphenation: en‧ci‧clo‧pé‧di‧a

enciclopédia f (plural enciclopédias)

1. encyclopedia (reference work consisting of a list of words or expressions, not always arranged in alphabetical order, including general information on all branches of human knowledge)
2. (linguistics) encyclopedia (knowledge about the world, shared, at a given time and in a given social environment, by interlocutors who participate in the production and interpretation of discursive acts)
3. (figuratively) wise person

• “enciclopédia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “enciclopédia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024