compendium

[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm]

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noun, plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a

[kuhm-pen-dee-uh] /kəmˈpɛn di ə/.

a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.

Also com·pend

[kom-pend] /ˈkɒm pɛnd/.

Origin of compendium

1575–85; < Latin: gain, saving, shortcut, abridgment, equivalent to com- com- + pend- (stem of pendere to cause to hang down, weigh) + -ium -ium

Synonyms for compendium

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1. survey, digest, conspectus.

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Related Words for compend

compendium, sketch, outline, reduction, summary, synopsis, curtailment, decrease, diminution, epitome, lessening, digest, breviary, compend

Examples from the Web for compend

Historical Examples of compend

He is the compend of time; he is also the correlative of nature.
Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The author preferred to publish the entire Compend than merely a part of it.
An Essay on Professional Ethics
George Sharswood
So far as I am aware, there is no compend of information on the subject in any language so trustworthy and so judicious as this.
History of Ancient Art
Franz von Reber
Perhaps it may be accounted for by the order of the compend of Christian ethics the writer was following.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 2
Various
An epitome, compend, or compendium is a condensed view of a subject, whether derived from a previous publication or not.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
James Champlin Fernald

British Dictionary definitions for compend

compendium

noun plural -diums or -dia (-dɪə)

British a book containing a collection of useful hints
British a selection, esp of different games or other objects in one container
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

Word Origin for compendium

C16: from Latin: a saving, literally: something weighed, from pendere to weigh

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Word Origin and History for compend

compendium

1580s, from Latin compendium "a shortening, saving," literally "that which is weighed together," from compendere "to weigh together," from com- "together" (see com-) + pendere "to weigh" (see pendant). Borrowed earlier as compendi (mid-15c.).