compendium
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com·pen·di·um
(kəm-pĕn'dē-əm) 
n., pl., -di·ums, or -di·a (-dē-ə).
n., pl., -di·ums, or -di·a (-dē-ə).
- 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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compendium
has plurals compendiums (preferred) and compendia.
| compelling, compulsive, compass points, comparison | |
| competence, competency, complacent, complaisant, complement |
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categories related to 'compendium'
- Publications - compendium: brief treatment or account, usu. of extensive subject
- Books and Pages - compendium: concise but comprehensive treatise or abstract
- Order, Hierarchy, and Systems - compendium: collection of information; brief summary of larger work
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Compendium
For the computer program, see Compendium (software).
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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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References
- ^ Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (USCCB 2005), 200 pages, English hardcover ISBN 1574557254-8675309.
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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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