-pedia

See also: pedia, pedía, 'pedia, and 'Pedia

English

Alternative forms

• -paedia
• -pædia

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “upbringing, education”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

Suffix

-pedia

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Relating to learning.

Related terms

• encyclopedia
• paideia
• Paidia

Etymology 2

Back-formation from encyclopedia.

Suffix

-pedia

1. A specialized encyclopedia about the prefixed subject.

   ‎unicorn + ‎-o- + ‎-pedia → ‎Unicornopedia (“an encyclopedia about unicorns”)

2. A general encyclopedia in the structure described by the prefix.

   ‎kid + ‎-pedia → ‎Kidpedia (“an encylopedia for young children”)

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -pedia

macropedia

micropedia

Nupedia

propedia

Wikipedia

Translations

Translations

• Afrikaans: -pedia
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: -pedia f
• Belarusian: -пэ́дыя (-pédyja)
• Burmese: -ပိဒိယ (-pi.di.ya.)
• Catalan: -pèdia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百科 (zh) (-bǎikē)

• Czech: -pedie
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: -pedia
• Esperanto: -pedio
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: -pedia
• French: -pédie (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: -პედია (-ṗedia)
• German: -pädie (de)
• Greek: -παίδεια (-paídeia)

  Ancient Greek: -παιδεία (-paideía)

• Hindi: -पीडिया (-pīḍiyā)
• Icelandic: -pedia
• Ido: -pedio
• Indonesian: -pedia
• Irish: -péid
• Italian: -pedia
• Japanese: ペディア (-pedia)
• Khmer: -ភីឌា (phiidiə)
• Korean: -피디아 (-pidia)
• Kyrgyz: -педия (-pediya)
• Latin: -paedīa f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: -പീഡിയ (-pīḍiya)
• Middle English: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: -педиа (-pedia)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: -pedia f
• Portuguese: -pédia f
• Romanian: -pedie
• Russian: -пе́дия (-pédija)
• Spanish: -pedia
• Swedish: -pedi
• Turkish: -pedi
• Ukrainian: -пе́дія (-pédija)
• Uzbek: -pediya
• Vietnamese: -pedia (vi)
• Yiddish: ־פּעדיע (-pedye)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• paide

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits

Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)

Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía)der.

Polish -pedia

Derived from Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.dja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛdja
• Syllabification: -pe‧dia

Suffix

-pedia

1. -pedia

   ‎hipno- + ‎-pedia → ‎hipnopedia

Declension

Declension of -pedia

	singular
nominative	-pedia
genitive	-pedii
dative	-pedii
accusative	-pedię
instrumental	-pedią
locative	-pedii
vocative	-pedio

Derived terms

Polish terms suffixed with -pedia

logopedia

Further reading

• -pedia in Polish dictionaries at PWN