compendium
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
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.
- A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
- (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
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short, complete summary
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French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin compendium.
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Noun edit
compendium m (plural compendiums)
- compendium, abstract
- Un compendium de logique, de philosophie.
- A compendium of logic and philosophy
- 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)
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Further reading edit
- “compendium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
con- (“with”) + pendō (“I weigh”) + -ium, literally that which is weighed together.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈpen.di.um/, [kɔmˈpɛn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpen.di.um/, [komˈpɛn̪d̪ium]
Noun edit
compendium n (genitive compendiī or compendī); second declension
- saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
- shortening, abbreviating; abridgement
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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).
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Descendants of compendium in other languages
- Asturian: compendiu
- Catalan: compendi
- English compendium
- French: compendium
- Galician: compendio
- Georgian: კომპენდიუმი (ḳomṗendiumi)
- German: Kompendium
- Italian: compendio
- Portuguese: compêndio
- Romanian: compendiu
- Spanish: compendio
References edit
- “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.
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Noun edit
compendium n (plural compendiumuri)
- Alternative form of compendiu
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Declension of compendium
singular | plural | |||
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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 |