encyclopaedia

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English

The 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with its yearbook supplements

From New Latin encyclopaedia, variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

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Borrowed from a univerbated form of Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “child-rearing, education”). This spelling seems to have been first used by Paul Skalich in 1559, although the spelling encyclopedia goes back to at least 1517, with a work by Johannes Aventinus.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /en.ky.klo.pae̯ˈdiː.a/, [ɛŋkʏkɫ̪ɔpäe̯ˈd̪iːä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /en.t͡ʃi.klo.peˈdi.a/, [en̠ʲt͡ʃiklopeˈd̪iːä]

encyclopaedīa f (genitive encyclopaedīae); first declension

All borrowings.

encyclopaedia 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)

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias)