- 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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com·pen·di·um (kəm-pĕn'dē-əm) ![]() |
[Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh.]
| WordNet: compendium |
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
| Wikipedia: Compendium |
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, logology, ichthyology, phytosociology, or myrmecology), while a "universal" encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of all human knowledge.
The word compendium comes from the Latin word "compenso", meaning "to weigh together or balance".
An example would be the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a 598-question-and-answer concise book which summarises the same set of Catholic Faith and Morals.[1]
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| Translations: Compendium |
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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