Compendium Definition

kəm-pĕndē-əm
compendia, compendiums
noun
compendiums
A short but complete summary of something.
American Heritage
A summary or abstract containing the essential information in a brief form; concise but comprehensive treatise.
Webster's New World

A list or collection of various items.

Wiktionary

A short, complete summary; an abstract.

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Other Word Forms of Compendium

Noun

Singular:
compendium
Plural:
compendia, compendiums

Origin of Compendium

  • Latin a shortening from compendere to weigh together com- com- pendere to weigh (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Compendium Sentence Examples

  • A useful handbook of Swedenborg's theology is the Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg by the Rev. Samuel Warren (London, 1885).

  • In this as in the previous studies a compendium is learned by heart, and explanations are given from commentaries and noted down by the students word for word.

  • He founds his argument mainly on passages in the Communia Naturalium, which indeed prove distinctly that it was sent to Clement, and cannot, therefore, form part of the Compendium, as Brewer seems to think.

  • The Speculum Majus, the great compendium of all the knowledge of the middle ages, as it left the pen of Vincent, seems to have consisted of three parts only, viz.

  • Ambrosius Macrobius Theodosius (c. 400) wrote a treatise on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis and seven books of miscellanies (Saturnalia); and Martianus Capella (c. 430), a native of Africa, published a compendium of the seven liberal arts, written in a mixture of prose and verse, with some literary pretensions.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOM

Words Ending With

MUMIUM

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Words Starting With C and Ending With M

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