compendium
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From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together”; “a sparing”, “a saving”, “an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“I weigh”).
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Wikipedia compendium (plural compendiums or compendia)
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From Latin compendium
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- IPA: /kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm/
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compendium m. (plural compendiums)
- compendium, abstract.
- Un compendium de logique, de philosophie.
- vitrine showing didactic material.
- L’ameublement de l’École traditionnelle est […] celui d’un auditorium scriptorium : chaire surélevée, unique tableau à l’usage exclusif de l’exposé magistral […], bancs pupitres pour enfants assis écrivant ou lisant […] meuble bibliothèque et compendium scientifique soigneusement fermés, à l’abri de la poussière et des mains indiscrètes. (Célestin Freinet, L’École moderne française, 1946)
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Literally that which is weighed together
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compendium (genitive compendiī); n, second declension
- saving; profit or gain, especially made by saving
- shortening, abbreviating; abridgement