different between compendium vs compendious

English

Etymology

From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pend? (“I weigh”).

Pronunciation

Noun

compendium (plural compendiums or compendia)

1. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
2. 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.

   1. A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
   2. (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.

Synonyms

• encyclopedia
• cyclopedia

Derived terms

• biocompendium
• compendial

Related terms

• compendious

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin compendium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.p??.dj?m/, /k??.p??.dj?m/

Noun

compendium m (plural compendiums)

1. compendium, abstract.

2. vitrine showing didactic material.

   (Célestin Freinet, L’École moderne française, 1946)

Further reading

• “compendium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

con- (“with”) +? pend? (“I weigh”) +? -ium, literally that which is weighed together.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom?pen.di.um/, [k?m?p?n?d?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom?pen.di.um/, [k?m?p?n?d?ium]

Noun

compendium n (genitive compendi? or compend?); second declension

1. saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
2. shortening, abbreviating; abridgement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• compendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.

Adjective

compendious (comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious)

1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
2. briefly describing a body of knowledge

Related terms

• compendium
• compendia

Translations

Anagrams

• pseudomonic