- A short, complete summary; an abstract.
- A list or collection of various items.
[Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh.]
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[Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh.]
The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
a publication containing a variety of works
Synonym: collection
Meaning #2:
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
A compendium is a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work. In most cases the body of knowledge will concern some delimited field of human interest or endeavour (for example, hydrogeology), while a "universal" encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of all human knowledge.
The word compendium comes from the Latin word compendere, meaning "to weigh together".
An example of a compendium might be the Oxford English Dictionary project which attempts to be a comprehensive compilation of words in the English language. Other sites on the internet also have directories that could make some claim to this; Google's directory, about.com, etc.
Another example is the recently released Compendium - Catechism of the Catholic Church, a 598 questions and answers concise book which summarises the same set of Catholic Faith and Morals.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kompendium, uddrag, liste, brevmappe
Français (French)
n. - manuel, petite encyclopédie, (GB) mallette de jeux
Deutsch (German)
n. - Handbuch, Kompendium, Abriß
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - επιτομή, απάνθισμα
Italiano (Italian)
compendio, riassunto, sommario
Português (Portuguese)
n. - compêndio (m)
Русский (Russian)
конспект, набор
Español (Spanish)
n. - compendio
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kompendium, handbok
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
大要, 概略
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大要, 概略
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대요, 개론, 편지 세트
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大要, 概論, …必携
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مجموعه مواضيع مختصرة أو موجزة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - קיצור, תמצית
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