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French
Pronunciation
Noun
pandectes f
- plural of pandecte
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandéktēs, “all-receiver, encyclopedia”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pandectēs m (genitive pandectae); first declension
- A book that contains everything, encyclopedia.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “pandectes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pandectes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.