enchiridion
See also: ἐγχειρίδιον
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion), from ἐν (en, “in”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + a neuter suffix.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛn.kaɪˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/
- Hyphenation: en‧chi‧ri‧di‧on
- Rhymes: -ɪdiən
Noun
editenchiridion (plural enchiridions or enchiridia)
- A handbook or manual.
- 2009, Thomas Keymer, The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, page 27:
- If they queried the predictabilities and completions of story, Swift and Sterne were yet more suspicious of the totalisations and regularities of imposed rules, institutes, universal systems, cyclopaedias and enchiridions.
- A dagger.[1]
References
edit- ^ Milton, John. Thomas White, ed. Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, pp. 115 f., n. 4. R. Hunter, 1819.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /en.kʰiːˈri.di.on/, [ɛŋkʰiːˈrɪd̪iɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /en.kiˈri.di.on/, [eŋkiˈriːd̪ion]
Noun
editenchīridion n (genitive enchīridiī); second declension
- a manual
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
Genitive | enchīridiī | enchīridiōrum |
Dative | enchīridiō | enchīridiīs |
Accusative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
Ablative | enchīridiō | enchīridiīs |
Vocative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
References
edit- “enchiridion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- enchiridion in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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