different between overview vs conspectus

English

Etymology

over- +? view

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?vju?/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [2], ?ISBN, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nspectus (“survey”).

Noun

conspectus (plural conspectuses)

1. A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.

Further reading

• conspectus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conspectus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conspectus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of c?nspici? (“perceive, observe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?spek.tus/, [kõ??s?p?kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?spek.tus/, [k?n?sp?kt?us]

Participle

c?nspectus (feminine c?nspecta, neuter c?nspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. watched, looked at, having been watched
2. caught sight of, noticed, having been caught sight of
3. (by extension) visible
4. (figuratively) distinguished, noteworthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

• Galician: Cospeito (place name)

Noun

c?nspectus m (genitive c?nspect?s); fourth declension

1. A sight
2. The ability to see; power of sight
3. presence, proximity
4. (figuratively) survey, consideration

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• Russian: ????????? (konspékt)

References

• conspectus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conspectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• conspectus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016