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compendium

 
(kəm-pĕn'dē-əm) pronunciation
n., pl., -di·ums, or -di·a (-dē-ə).
  1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  2. A list or collection of various items.

[Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh.]


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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. It could also be referred to as a tome.

The word compendium arrives from the Latin word "compenso", meaning "to weigh together or balance".

The 21st century has seen the rise of democratized, online compendia in various fields.

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An example would be the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a concise 598-question-and-answer book which summarises the teachings of the Catholic Faith and Morals.[1]

The Bible is another example of a compendium - a group of many writings of the prophets and apostles over a space of time, whose books are put together to form the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The bestiary, popular in the middle ages, is another example of a compendium. Bestiaries cataloged animals and facts about natural history and were particularly popular in England and France around the 12th century.

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  1. ^ Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (USCCB 2005), 200 pages, English hardcover ISBN 1574557254-8675309.

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Compendium

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kompendium, uddrag, liste, brevmappe

Nederlands (Dutch)
compendium

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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