Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Synonyms
- 1.3.2 Derived terms
- 1.3.3 Related terms
- 1.3.4 Translations
- 2 French
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Pronunciation
- 2.3 Noun
- 2.4 Further reading
- 3 Latin
- 3.1 Etymology
- 3.2 Pronunciation
- 3.3 Noun
- 3.3.1 Declension
- 3.3.2 Derived terms
- 3.3.3 Descendants
- 3.4 References
- 4 Romanian
- 4.1 Noun
- 4.1.1 Declension
- 4.1 Noun
English
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Etymology
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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
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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.
Synonyms
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Translations
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short, complete summary
- Bulgarian: резюме(bg)n (rezjume), конспект(bg)m (konspekt)
- Catalan: compendi(ca)m
- Esperanto: kompendio
- Finnish: tiivistelmä(fi)
- French: recueil(fr)m, compendium(fr)m
- Galician: compendiom
- German: Kompendium(de)n
- Greek: επιτομή(el)f (epitomí), σύνοψη(el)f (sýnopsi)
- Italian: compendio(it)m
- Japanese: 大要(ja) (taiyou), 要約(ja) (youyaku)
- Maori: mātāpunenga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kompendiumn
- Nynorsk: kompendiumn
- Polish: kompendium(pl)n
- Romanian: compendiu(ro)
- Russian: конспе́кт(ru)m (konspékt), компе́ндиум(ru)m (kompéndium)
- Spanish: compendio(es)m
- Swahili: mkusanyiko(sw)
- Swedish: kompendium(sv)n
French
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Etymology
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From Latin compendium.
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Noun
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compendiumm (plural compendiums)
- compendium, abstract
Un compendium de logique, de philosophie.
- A compendium of logic and philosophy
- vitrine showing didactic material
- (Célestin Freinet, L’École moderne française, 1946)
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 soigneusem*nt fermés, à l’abri de la poussière et des mains indiscrètes.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading
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- “compendium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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Etymology
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con- (“with”) + pendō (“I weigh”) + -ium, literally that which is weighed together.
Pronunciation
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈpen.di.um/, [kɔmˈpɛn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpen.di.um/, [komˈpɛn̪d̪ium]
Noun
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compendiumn (genitive compendiī or compendī); second declension
- saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
- shortening, abbreviating; abridgement
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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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
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- “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.
Romanian
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Noun
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compendiumn (plural compendiumuri)
- Alternative form of compendiu
Declension
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Declension of compendium
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
